Lot 310: John La Farge (American, 1835-1910)

John La Farge (American, 1835-1910)
The Virgin and St. John the Evangelist at the Foot of the Cross
oil on panel, shaped top
95½ x 29½ in. (243 x 75 cm.)
Painted in 1862-3
a pair (2)

New York, National Academy of Design, Catalogue of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1863, no. 1.
New York, Art Students' League, [Monthly Exhibition], January 1880.
New York, American Art Galleries Summer Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists 9-30 June, 1883.
New York, American Art Association, Exhibition of Paintings by Members of the Art Club of New York, 12-28 February 1883, no. 83 and 84.
New York, Ferargil Galleries, Watercolors, Stained Glass, and Oil Paintings by John La Farge, February 1923 (not listed).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Summer Exhibition, 3 May-12 November 1932, no. 53 and 54.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, An Exhibition of the Work of John La Farge, 23 March-26 April 1936, no. 11 and 12 (illus.).

Commissioned by the Reverend William Quinn, New York, 1862-3.
Peirce and Co., Boston, 19-20 November 1878, unsold and returned to the artist.
John La Farge, New York and Newport, RI, 1878-1884; Ortgies and Co., New York, 17 April 1884, lot 36 to William Collins Whitney, New York, (d. 1904).
By descent to his son, Harry Payne Whitney, New York, (d. 1930).
By descent to his wife, Mrs. Harry Payne (Gertrude Vanderbilt) Whitney, New York, 1930-1931.
Gifted to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1931.
with Knoedler and Co., New York, 1950 from where purchased by Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, New York, 1950.
Almost certainly purchased by Duarte Pinto Coelho, 1983, as part of the sale of the house and contents at Trujillo, Spain.

John La Farge (American, 1835-1910)
The Virgin and St. John the Evangelist at the Foot of the Cross
oil on panel, shaped top
95½ x 29½ in. (243 x 75 cm.)
Painted in 1862-3
a pair (2)