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SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD
Study of the Parthenon
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Oil on canvas, 1869. 168x295 mm; 6
5
/
8
x11
5
/
8
inches. Incised title “Parthenon” and date
“May 10 1869,” lower right recto.
Likely part of the Gifford estate sale, 1881, with the red ink stamp, verso.
Gifford (1823-1880) was a second-generation Hudson River School painter, who carried
on the landscape tradition of Thomas Cole along with contemporaries such as Frederic
Church and Albert Bierstadt. In addition to memorializing American vistas, Gifford
traveled to Europe to depict foreign scenery on two occasions (1855-57 and 1868-69).