Winslow Homer
Breezing Up
187661.5 x 97 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: HOMER 1876.
Signed lower left: HOMER
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of the W.L. and May T. Mellon Foundation
Literature
Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 842
Provenance
Purchased from the artist by Charles Stewart Smith (1832-1909), New York, by 1878
by inheritance to his son, Howard Caswell Smith, Oyster Bay, New York
sold 1943 to Wildenstein & Co., New York
purchased 31 December 1943 by NGA
Other works by Winslow Homer
Boys in a Dory
1873
1873
Right and Left
1909
1909
The Nooning
c. 1872
c. 1872
Northeaster
1895; reworked by 1901
1895; reworked by 1901
Moonlight, Wood Island Light
1894
1894