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Sanford Robinson Gifford American
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 760
Gifford visited Isola Bella on Lago Maggiore, Italy, in 1856 and again twelve years later, painting the site numerous times and refining his vision of the scene. In late July 1868, the artist spent several days in the region, recording of one of them: “It was a perfect day, not too hot. I have come to the conclusion that this part of Maggiore is the finest of all the Italian Lakes.” In this painting, based on an oil sketch “of a sunset on Lake Maggiore,” Gifford extended the width on both sides to include the profiles of mountains distributed along the water, with the filmy light of sunset between them.
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Title: Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore
Artist: Sanford Robinson Gifford (Greenfield, New York 1823–1880 New York, New York)
Date: 1871
Culture: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 36in. (51.4 x 91.4cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Colonel Charles A. Fowler, 1921
Accession Number: 21.115.1
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Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)
Chronology
The United States and Canada, 1800-1900 A.D.
Museum Publications
Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford
American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 2, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born between 1816 and 1845
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