View in the Dolomites

sale, Christie's, New York, January 24, 2001, no. 137, as French school, early 19th century; Eugene V. Thaw, New York (until 2009)

New York. Pierpont Morgan Library. "The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions Since 1994," September 27, 2002–January 19, 2003, no. 89 (as "A View in the Dolomites, Italy").

New York. Morgan Library & Museum. "Rocks and Mountains: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection," July 19, 2016–August 6, 2017, no catalogue.

New York. Morgan Library & Museum. "Sublime on the Small Scale: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection," September 29, 2020–September 12, 2021, no catalogue.

Kathleen Stuart in The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings and Oil Sketches, Acquisitions Since 1994. Exh. cat., Pierpont Morgan Library. New York, 2002, pp. 194–95, no. 89, ill. (color), notes that it was first attributed to Closson in 2001 by the curator of the Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège, a great repository of Closson's oil sketches and drawings; compares it to his "Mountain Landscape," an oil sketch from that museum's collection, and to his "Study of Rocks," another oil sketch formerly with Galerie d'Arenberg, Brussels; states that the precise location within the Dolomites is difficult to ascertain but that the form of the ridge depicted is comparable to a mountain group north of Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Esther Bell. "Catalogue Raisonné of the Thaw Collection." Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection. Ed. Jennifer Tonkovich. New York, 2011, p. 109, no. 22, ill. (color), calls it "View in the Dolomites".

There are sketches in oil and graphite on the reverse of the sheet.