Lot 491
Frederick Dickinson Williams (American, 1829-1915), "Two Women by a Pond at Sunset", oil on pasteboard, signed with initials and dated "1862" lower left, 3 7/8 in. x 5 in., framed. E1500-2000 As a small striking example in American art of the pervasive influence exerted by the French painters of the Barbizon school, this glowing sunset idyll by Williams-a fashionable Boston painter who later lived for years in Paris-is redolent of the evocative landscape styles of Daubigny, of Diaz de la Pe¤a, and most clearly of Th‚odore Rousseau. At the same time it displays an unmistakably American handling, especially in the subtly elegiac mood that is so close to the works of Williams's contemporary George Inness (1825-1894), and above all in the heightened chromatic intensity of the sky, in blazing pigments closely akin to the palette of another influential American painter of this same generation, Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900).
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