Winslow Homer
The Shepherdess, c. 1878
Oil on canvas
15 x 12 ¼ in.
23 1/2 x 20 5/8 in. framed
Provenance
Charles S. Homer, Jr., by bequest, 1910
Mrs. Charles S. Homer, Jr. by bequest, 1917
Arthur P. and Charles L Homer, by bequest, 1937
(Williams Macbeth, Inc., c 1937)
(Wildenstein & Co., 1943)
Mr. Dudley S. Ingraham Collection, 1950
Thence by descent in the family
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Private Sale, 2021
Private Collection
Literary References
Goodrich, Lloyd and Gerdts, Abigail Booth, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume III: 1877 through March 1881, New York, 2005, p. 180, no. 756 (illustrated).
Homer, Winslow, and Frick Art Research Library, The Shepherdess.
[George William Sheldon], “Sketches and Studies VII. From the Portfolios of R. Swain Gifford, Winslow Homer, Arthur Quartley, A.T. Britcher,” (NY) Art Journal 6 (Nov. 1880): 326. Reprinted in, G.W. Sheldon, Hours with Art and Artists (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882), 138.
Exhibition History
Exhibition of paintings by Winslow Homer: December 8th - 31st, 1941: Babcock Galleries, no 14
New Britain Museum of American Art, 1942
