William Sidney Mount
The Tough Story - Scene in a Country Tavern
183742.6 x 55.9 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated lower left: Wm. S. Mount - / 1837
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Corcoran Collection
Literature
Esmée Quodbach (ed.), Holland's Golden Age in America, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2014, fig. 27
Provenance
Commissioned 1837 by Robert Gilmor, Jr. (1774-1848), Baltimore
by descent to his nephew, Charles Smith Gilmor (1817-1866), Baltimore
with Freyer & Bendann, Baltimore
purchased 20 October 1874 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art