Picnic at Mount Jefferson
attributed to Victor de Grailly, French, 1804 - 1889
about 1845
Oil on canvas
Overall: 21 1/2 × 29 in. (54.6 × 73.6 cm)
Frame: 27 1/2 × 35 1/4 in. (69.9 × 89.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert A. and Dorothy H. Goldberg
P.987.34.16
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Exhibition History
A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven: Artists in the White Moutains, 1830-1930, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 10-October 30, 1988.
American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-December 9, 2007.
Israel Sack Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1993-March 10, 1996.
Photo reproduction exhibited at Weeks State Park, Lancaster, New Hampshire, June 1990.
Publication History
Robert L. McGrath and Barbara J. MacAdam, "A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven", Artists in the White Mountains 1830-1930, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1988, p.47, no.6.
Robert J. McGrath, Gods in Granite: The Art of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001, 216 p., ill. p. 82, ill. no. 59.
Provenance
Dorothy E. Huffman Goldberg (1917-1997) and Robert A. Goldberg (1918-1997), North Conway, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1987.
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