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WOMAN ON A ROCK
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LETTA CRAPO SMITH UNTITLED OIL, WOMANLETTA CRAPO SMITH UNTITLED OIL, WOMAN IN SHADELetta Crapo Smith
(Michigan, 1862-1921)
Untitled (Woman Seated in the Shade)
Oil on canvas
22" x 16"
An oil on canvas of a picnic or garden scene, with a woman on a rocking chair, shaded by a tree. Signature to the bottom left corner. The frame measures 28" x 22 1/4".
Letta Crapo Smith studied with at the Academie Julian in Paris with the likes of William Merritt Chase, Julius Rolshoven, and George Hitchcock, and spent her career traveling and painting in Japan and across Europe. She was President of the Detroit Society of Woman Painters, and notably, she had a work accepted by the Paris Salon. Smith's most famous painting, "The First Birthday," received the bronze medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and would later hang in the Louvre. Today, her works may be found in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Arts, and Wheaton College.
Condition
The canvas has been lined and re-stretched on a later , with the edge of the original canvas visible just inside the right of the frame's sight edge. Some areas of fine craquelure to the paint layer, which is not very visually distracting.
BIANCHINI FIRENZE FIGURAL ALABASTERBIANCHINI FIRENZE FIGURAL ALABASTER SCULPTUREDESCRIPTION: An Italian Bianchini Firenze signed alabaster sculpture depicting a lying woman on a rock formed base. Signed: "Bianchini Silvco, Firenze" near base. CIRCA: 20th Cent. ORIGIN: Italy DIMENSIONS: H: 11" x W: 13" x L: 27" CONDITION: Great condition. See lot description for details on item condition. More detailed condition requests can be obtained via email (info@akibaantiques.com) or SMS (305) 333-4134. Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Akiba Antiques shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
Italian School painting, MediterraneanItalian School painting, Mediterranean landscape with woman on a rock with a basket by the waterfront, signed lower right "J-B", oil on strainer, 19th century, 12-3/4 x 16 in.; fine gilt wood and composition frame. Patch verso with related retouch on house, retouch in sky, original stretcher and tacking edge, abrasions, craquelure; frame with loss to composition, repairs.
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