John Henry Twachtman

(American, 1853-1902)

Florence, Italy, Near Fiesole, c. 1880-81

oil on board

inscribed This painting of / Florence Italy near Fiesole / is the work of John Twachtman. / J. Rolshoven (on the reverse)

14 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.

Provenance:

The Artist.

Julius Rolshoven, a gift from the above, c. 1881.

By descent to his wife, Harriette Haynes Blazo Rolshoven, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1930.

By descent to the current owner, 1965.

Exhibited:

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, "John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist," February 26 - May 21, 2000 (traveling to Cincinnati Art Museum, June 6 - September 5, 1999 and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, October 16, 1999 -January 2, 2000).

Literature:

John Douglass Hale, "Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman," Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1957 (vol. 2, pp. 548-49; catalogue A, no. 169 as Florence, Italy, Near Fiesole).

Lisa N. Peters, "John Twachtman (1853-1902) and the American Scene in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Frontier within the Terrain of the Familiar," Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1995 (vol. 1, pp. 133–34; vol. 2, p. 649, ill. in b/w fig. 101 as Florence, Italy, Near Fiesole).

High Museum of Art, John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist, exhibition catalogue, Atlanta, 1999, p. 47 (illustrated in b/w as Florence, Italy, Near Fiesole).

Accessible in the John Henry Twatchman Catalogue Raisonné at https://www.jhtwachtman.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=219, no. OP.400.

Florence, Italy, Near Fiesole, c. 1880-81

Florence, Italy, Near Fiesole, c. 1880-81