Sarnen

[William Drummond, London]; 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. 88 (as "View of Sarnen over the Lake").

Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. "The Romantic Prospect: Plein Air Painters, 1780–1850," June 22–August 15, 2004, no. 63 (as "View of Sarnen over the lake").

Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales. "Plein-air Painting in Europe, 1780–1850," September 4–October 31, 2004, no. 63.

Melbourne. National Gallery of Victoria. "Plein-air Painting in Europe, 1780–1850," November 19, 2004–January 16, 2005, no. 63.

New York. Morgan Library & Museum. "Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection," January 23–August 30, 2009, unnum. checklist (as "View of Sarnen over the Lake").

New York. Morgan Library & Museum. "Rivers and Torrents: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection," March 27–December 9, 2018, 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. 192–93, no. 88, ill. (color), compares it to Richard Parkes Bonington's oil study "Boulogne—Low Tide" (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne), with its broad brushwork, quickly sketched figures, and suggestion of shadows in the water through slim vertical brushtrokes; states that the site is the Sarner See, a small lake in Unterwalden, south of Lucerne, where Fielding must have gone on his trip to Switzerland in summer 1824; notes the high-key palette, the abstracted foreground, and minimal, economic use of brushstrokes to present topographical details and the figure of the fisherman.

Charlotte Gere in Plein-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1850. Exh. cat., Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art. Shizuoka, 2004, pp. 124–25, no. 63, ill. (color), states that it shows Fielding's debt to Richard Parkes Bonington more than to his friend Eugène Delacroix; notes that while the inscription gives a recollected date between 1825 and 1830, Fielding's visit to Switzerland was in summer 1824, and it is hard to imagine the picture being produced other than on the spot.

Esther Bell. "Catalogue Raisonné of the Thaw Collection." Studying Nature: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection. Ed. Jennifer Tonkovich. New York, 2011, p. 122, no. 62, ill. (color), calls it "Sarnen".