id:			139815
accession number:	1963.574
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.574
updated:		2022-06-14 09:00:40.843000

View of a Lake, c. 1830s. Thomas Doughty (American, 1793-1856). Oil on canvas; framed: 53.3 x 69.6 x 7.6 cm (21 x 27 3/8 x 3 in.); unframed: 38.5 x 55 cm (15 3/16 x 21 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1963.574

title:				View of a Lake
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creation date:			c. 1830s
creation date earliest:		1830
creation date latest:		1839
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	America, 19th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Thomas Doughty (American, 1793-1856)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 53.3 x 69.6 x 7.6 cm (21 x 27 3/8 x 3 in.); Unframed: 38.5 x 55 cm (15 3/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Signed lower right: "T DOUGHTY"; inscribed on back of canvas in ink: "An original painting by DOUGHTY"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review (1964)
	opening date:   1965-01-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review (1964)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 1-31, 1965).

	title:		American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1979-07-07T04:00:00
	<i>American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Coshocton, OH, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (7 July - 1 November 1979), traveled to Lakewood, OH, The Kenneth C. Beck Center (17 September - 13 October 1980), fig. 3.<br>Mansfield, OH, Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape (8 March - 5 April 1981), cat. 1, p. 5, ill. p. 1.

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PROVENANCE

	J. N. Bartfield, New York; (Victor Spark, New York)
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Contrasting the many American landscape painters who conveyed nature's power through raging storms and blasted trees, Doughty emphasized the quiet power of the outside world in his idyllic paintings. Largely self-taught, he often drew from nature and skillfully transformed his detailed observances into soft, poetic depictions of the landscape. This work exhibits Doughty's penchant for inserting small figures in the center of the middle ground. The scale of the two boys on the lake's edge allows the viewer to focus on the expansive scenery, thereby emphasizing the diminutive nature of humankind in relation to the vast landscape.
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