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Harbor scene with sailboats in the foreground and hills in the background under a cloudy sky. Gilded frame.
seascapes
panel paintings (painting by form)
oil paint (paint)
panels (wood)
Picture
Seascape
Seascape
"Artful Stories": Although we cannot confirm its maker, whose initials appear at lower right, this painting deserves admiration for the lively brushstrokes that animate dozens of clouds in the sky, and also the waves on which sunlight gleams. It has long hung at the Codman Estate in Lincoln, Massachusettshome to Edward Darley Boits Dinard scene in this gallery. Might this also depict Dinard, a place meaningful to the Codmans? Scroll back and forth with the painting above to compare the hilltops and skylines.
Chase, Theodore, 1786-1859
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Possibly Eliot Blakeslee & Co. (Framer)
France
13 1/8 x 11 x 2 1/8 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.822
Probably
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