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Landscape View of Mountains and Inlet

Creator: William Louis Sonntag, Sr.
Offered by: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques

Description
Landscape View of Mountains and Inlet
Signed (l.l.): Sonntag
Oil on canvas
12 ½” x 27”, 20” x 32 ½” with frame
Over-all in excellent condition, retaining original incised gilt frame.
Provenance: Private collection, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
William Sonntag was primarily self-taught, yet became one of the central figures of the Hudson River School. His early landscapes were executed during painting excursions from Cincinnati to the Ohio River Valley and in Kentucky and West Virginia (1856-1859).
By the mid-1860s he was painting Mt. Adams, the Alleghenies, Shenandoah, Bethlehem (NH), and the Adirondacks. At the end of his life, he painted throughout the White Mountains.
This panoramic view depicting cattle with a figure along an inlet and a luminous sky exemplifies Sonntag’s work.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States
Period:	19th Century
Materials:	Oil on canvas
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Luminism, Hudson River School
Dealer Reference #:	WoA-AMP-OC 732
Incollect Reference #:	828176

Dimensions

W.	32.5 in;	H.	20 in;
W.	82.55 cm;	H.	50.8 cm;

Message from Seller:

Jeffrey Tillou Antiques was established in 1992. The three story historic building located “on the green” in Litchfield, features an extensive inventory of Americana from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here you will find an extraordinary collection of furniture, folk art, weathervanes, sculpture, Oriental carpets, and related decorative pieces as well as distinctive European furniture and original works of art.