Lot 63 | WILLIAM LOUIS SONNTAG (1822-1900)A Mountain Stream from the Foot of Mt.
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Carter, New Hampshiresigned W. L. Sonntag and inscribed N.A., l.r. - - oil on canvas40 1/8 x 55 1/4 in. (102 x 140.2 cm.)PROVENANCEBy descent in the family of the artistEstate of Jeanie Sonntag Vickery, New YorkEXHIBITEDNew York, National Academy of Design, 58th Annual Exhibition, Feb.-Mar. 1888, no. 348Paris, Universal Exposition, May-Nov. 1889, no. 275RELATED LITERATURENational Academy Notes, 1888, p. 124, illus. of engraving after the paintingA. Blaugrund, Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition, New York, 1989, p. 292, no. 275, illus. of engraving after the paintingMt. Carter represents the culmination of a series of paintings of New Hampshire that Sonntag executed in the 1880s. Exhibited in 1888 at the National Academy of Design, with the hefty price tag of $1,000, this painting was one of the few American landscape paintings included in the prestigious Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889.
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