
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen(1850-1921)The County of Edinburgh Aground at Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey 18 x 30in
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Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (1850-1921)
signed and dated 'Antonio Jacobsen 1902' (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 x 30in
Painted in 1902.
Footnotes
Provenance
Oliphant and Company, New York, by 1989.
Sale, Christie's, London, May 30, 1991, lot 120.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Exhibited
Fairfield County, Connecticut, Whitney Museum of American Art, Realism & Romanticism in Nineteenth Century New England Seascapes, September 15-November 29, 1989, p. 11.
Literature
H.S. Sniffen, Antonio Jacobsen - The Checklist: Paintings and Sketches by Antonio N.G. Jacobsen (1850-1921), New York, 1984, p. 84, as one of nos. 13 or 14.
The present work was recorded in H.S. Sniffen's checklist of paintings by Antonio Jacobsen published in 1984. The present lot was listed as one of two works depicting the County of Edinburgh in the author's original publication, the other in the collection of The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. A subsequent addendum to the original listing confirmed four additional works produced by the artist of this same subject, establishing a total of approximately six paintings of this subject were completed by Jacobsen during the period.