Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000
American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists Featuring the Papageorge Family Collection
Auction: June 4, 2023 3:00 PM EDT
Signed and dated ‘John F. Francis./Pt. 1856.’ bottom right, oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61cm)
Provenance
Fitzgerald Fine Art Galleries, Baltimore, Maryland (per label verso).
Private Collection, San Francisco, California.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, New York.
Acquired directly from the above.
Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, until 1987.
Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Acquired directly from the above.
The Papageorge Family Collection, Carversville, Pennsylvania.
Exhibited
"American Masters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, March 14-April 7, 1973.
Literature
American Masters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, an exhibition catalogue, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 1973, p. 12, no. 9 (illustrated).
One Hundred Fifity Years of Philadelphia Still-Life Painting, Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, Collection LXII, February 1997.