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Capri

1869

William Stanley Haseltine

(American, 1835–1900)

America, 19th century

Oil on canvas

Framed: 69.5 x 99.5 x 9 cm (27 3/8 x 39 3/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 50 x 80 cm (19 11/16 x 31 1/2 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1975.4

Location

not on view

Description

The Philadelphia-born Haseltine favored images of coastal rocks, painting them on both sides of the Atlantic throughout his career. Best known for his scenes of Maine and Massachusetts shorelines, Haseltine based this painting on volcanic rocks from the uninhabited eastern end of Capri, an island off the southwestern coast of Italy.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed lower left: W.S. HASELTINE / 1869 ROME

Provenance
New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc, 29 September 1973, no. 86; Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York
1975
(Levy Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1975–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 232 archive.org
Exhibition history

Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974: Art for Collectors (20 November - 18 December 1974); no catalogue.

Düsseldorf, West Germany, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, The Hudson and the Rhine: Die Amerikanische Malerkolonie in Düsseldorf im 19.Jahrhundert (4 April - 16 May 1976); traveled to Bielefeld, Kunsthalle (23 May - 20 June 1976); illus. cat. no. 37, listed p. 48.

Dayton, The Dayton Art Institute, American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century (4 December 1976 - 16 January 1977); traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (4 February - 20 March 1977); traveled to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (12 April - 29 May 1977); pp. 104-105, illus. cat. no. 19, p. 104.

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875 (10 February - 15 June 1980), illus. cat. no. 17, p. 28, included in chapter entitled "On Defining Luminism," by Barbara Novak;".

Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Visions of Landscape: East and West (17 February - 21 March 1982).

Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914 (16 September - 13 December 1992); traveled to Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art (3 February - 11 April 1993); traveled to Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts (23 May - 8 August 1993); illus. cat. no. 61, p. 295.

American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (organizer) (December 4, 1976-January 16, 1977); Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (February 4-March 20, 1977).

American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (co-organizer) (February 10-June 15, 1980).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

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