Fantastic Mountainous Landscape with a Starry Sky

Robert Caney

Associated Names
Robert Caney

Artist, British, 1847 - 1911

This painting depicts a landscape with craggy mountain peaks that look almost like waves. The rocky ledge closest to us continues across the bottom of the painting up into the bottom left corner, and is mostly gray, with dark blue shadows. On the right is a dark blue and purple peak, its edges lined in white. In the center is a peak that is light blue towards the bottom and white at the top, with rays of light seeming to emit from it into the blue sky. It is surrounded by white stars.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor and gouache on gray-blue wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 21.4 x 26 cm (8 7/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.70.76

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

probably Miss Dinah Caney (sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1973, part of lot 299); (bought by Christopher Powney); Finchden Manor, Tenterden, Kent; Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1977; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 167 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 2 c[?]; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 22

Wikidata ID

Q64628861

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