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Autumn Landscape
Artist
William Louis Sonntag
(American, 1822 - 1900)
Date1864
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 35 1/8 x 51 1/4 in. (89.2 x 130.2 cm)
Frame: 42 7/8 x 58 5/8 in. (108.9 x 148.9 cm)
Frame: 42 7/8 x 58 5/8 in. (108.9 x 148.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hilary Vesell in memory of Elliot Vesell, founding chair of Pharmacology at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Object number2019.150
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
On viewCentury
- Nineteenth
Signedbottom left: W. L. Sonntag / 1864
Inscribedplaque on frame bottom center: American Autumn / W. L. SONNTAG, N. A.; verso top right sticker: 56
Exhibition HistoryAll That is Glorious Around Us, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–March 22, 1981.ProvenanceKenneth Lux, New York, unknown method and date of acquisition.
Hilary Vesell, Hershey, PA, unknown method and date of acquisition.
Palmer Museum of Art, gift of Hilary Vesell, 2019.Published References"New Acquisition: William Louis Sonntag, Palmer Museum of Art," American Fine Art Magazine, no. 47 (September/October 2019): 41 (ill., color).
All That is Glorious Around Us (exh. cat.) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1981), 37 (ill.), 125 (no. 56).