Christ on the Road to Emmaus, c. 1725/1730

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 64.2 x 77.1 cm (25 1/4 x 30 3/8 in.)

framed: 75.5 x 88.9 x 4.4 cm (29 3/4 x 35 x 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Accession Number

1966.13.6

Artists / Makers

American 18th Century (artist)

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Provenance

Recorded as from New York State. A Dutch family in the vicinity of Kingston, New York. (Thurston Thacher, Hyde Park, New York), by whom sold in 1952 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch;[1] gift to NGA, 1966.

[1] This is taken from the Garbisch records. Ruth Piwonka (see below), however, in a letter of 23 April 1977, in NGA curatorial files, indicates that the painting is likely to have the same Sanders/Wilson provenance as Christ and the Woman of Samaria (1953.5.91) and Young Man on a Terrace (1953.5.92), both by unknown painters, as well as Lady Undressing for a Bath (1956.13.11), attributed to Gerardus Duyckinck.

Associated Names

Garbisch, Edgar William, Mr. and Mrs.
Thacher, Thurston
Unknown Patron

Exhibition History

1954: American Primitive Painting, traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Inst. for the U.S. Information Service, Washington, 1954-1955, no. 3. First venue: Kunstmusuem, Lucerne, Switzerland.

1962: Exhibiton of Early American Art, Academy of the Arts, Talbot County Historical Society, Easton, Maryland, 1962, no. 19.

1968: The American Primitive Paintings Exhibit, organized by the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, for de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, 1968.

1979: A Remnant in the Wilderness. New York Dutch Scripture History Paintings of the Early Eighteenth Century, The Albany Institute of History and Art, traveling exh., 4 venues, 1979-1980, no. 6, 27. (NGA loans shown only in Utica and New York City, 1980)

Bibliography

1953: Wheeler, Robert G. "Hudson Valley Religious Paintings." Antiques 63 (April 1953): 346-348, 350.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 132, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 270, repro.

1992: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 396, repro.

1992: Chotner, Deborah, with contributions by Julie Aronson, Sarah D. Cash, and Laurie Weitzenkorn. American Naive Paintings. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1992: 453-454, color repro. 453.