The Tiber Below Perugia

Artist George Inness (American, 1825-1894)

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1871

DimensionsFrame: 30 1/4 × 41 1/4 × 3 3/4 in. (76.8 × 104.8 × 9.5 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Arthur J. Secor

Object number

1922.36

Not on View

Label TextAt the encouragement of his Boston dealers, who found that European landscape views sold better than American views, George Inness went to Italy in 1870, where he remained until 1874. According to his son, Inness spent two summers at the picturesque Umbrian hilltop town of Perugia. This painting is among those that Inness sent to his dealers in exchange for regular payments. It shows greater realism and detail than his more poetic works, prompted in part by the taste of the American public and the need to provide more readily saleable pictures.Published ReferencesToledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 41, April 1922, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 95A, Sept. 1941, repr.

Richardson, E., American Romantic Painting, New York, 1944, p. 38, pl. 186.

Wittmann, Otto, "The Attraction of Italy for American Painters," Antiques, LXXV, May 1964, p. 552, repr.

Ireland, LeRoy, The Works of George Inness, An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, Austin and London, 1965, no. 526, repr.

Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr., The Life and Work of George Inness, New York and London, 1977, (Garland reprint of Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1965), pp. 217-218, fig. 64.

Toledo Museum of Art, A Guide to the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, 1966, repr.

Index of Twentieth Century Artists, vol. IV, no. 3, p. 364.

Cikovsky, N., Jr., George Inness, New York, 1971, p. 43, repr. p. 43.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 64, pl. 64.

Strickler, Susan E., "American Paintings at the Toledo Museum of Art," Apollo, vol. 116, no. 5, Nov. 1979, p. 1114, repr. (col.) pl. VIII.

Brill, Attilio, Le città ritrovate alla ricerca dello spirito del luogo, Milan, 1989, repr. p. 43 (col.).

Cikovsky, Nicolai, "Inness and Italy," in The Italian Presence in American Art 1860-1920, Rome, 1992, pp. 52, 54, pl. 32.

Quick, Michael, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2007, no. 398, vol. I, pp. 330, 380, fig. 174, p. 330, repr. p. 381.

Exhibition HistoryBoston, Boston Art Club, 1871.

Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, George Inness, Centennial Exhibition, 1825-1925, 1925, no. 25.

San Francisco, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, Exhibition of American Painting, 1935, no. 145, repr.

Davenport, Davenport Museum, 1939.

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts; Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, Travelers in Arcadia: American Artists in Italy 1830-1875, 1951, no. 65, repr.

New York, Macbeth Gallery, Italian Landscapes by George Inness, 1952, no. 4.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington, National Gallery of Art, George Inness, 1985-1986, no. 18, p. 112, repr. (col.).