Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): A. Achenbach / 1853

John Wolfe, New York (until 1863; his sale, Henry H. Leeds & Co., New York, December 22–23, 1863, no. 70, as "View on the Coast of Sicily, Storm Clearing Off," for $3,000, to Sanford); James T. Sanford, New York (1863); Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, New York (1863–d. 1887)

New York. American Federation of Arts. "Romantic Art, 1750–1900," October 1965–October 1966, no. 1.

Providence, R.I. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. "To Look on Nature: European and American Landscape, 1800–1874," February 3–March 5, 1972, unnumbered cat. (pl. 11).

Cambridge. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "To Look on Nature: European and American Landscape, 1800–1874," April 6–May 7 1972, unnumbered cat.

New York Cultural Center. "Grand Reserves," October 24–December 8, 1974, no. 103 (as "Sunset after a Storm; Coast of Sicily").

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. "Andreas und Oswald Achenbach: 'Das A und O der Lanschaft'," November 29, 1997–February 1, 1998, unnumbered cat.

Altonaer Museum in Hamburg. "Andreas und Oswald Achenbach: 'Das A und O der Lanschaft'," February 25–April 19, 1998, unnumbered cat.

Josephine L. Allen and Elizabeth E. Gardner. A Concise Catalogue of the European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1954, p. 5.

David C. Huntington. The Landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church: Vision of an American Era. New York, 1966, p. 35, fig. 61 (detail), remarks that Church was first inspired to go to Mount Desert, Maine after seeing Achenbach's marine landscapes, such as this painting.

To Look on Nature: European and American Landscape, 1800–1874. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, 1972, pp. 50–51, 55, pl. 11, calls it a "theatrically conceived landscape," painted in Germany, many years after Achenbach had been in Italy.

Birgit Ponten. "Andreas Achenbach." PhD diss., Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1983, pp. 163–64, 253, no. 106.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 234, ill.

Petra Gröschel and Martina Sitt in Andreas und Oswald Achenbach: "Das A und O der Landschaft". Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Cologne, 1997, p. 213, ill. p. 85 (color).

Rebecca A. Rabinow. "Catharine Lorillard Wolfe: The First Woman Benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum." Apollo 147 (March 1998), pp. 50, 54 n. 8, states that Wolfe acquired this painting at John Wolfe's first sale in December 1863.