About This Artwork

George Inness
American, 1825-1894

Villa Barberini, 1872

Oil on canvas
23.5 x 34 cm (9 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.)
Signed, lower right: "G. Inness"
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1206

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness, N.A., Dec. 27, 1894, cat. 214.

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by George Inness, Mar. 1–17, 1895, cat. 17.

Publication History

Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 221.

LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness (University of Texas Press, 1965), cat. 596.

Ownership History

The artist, 1872; estate of the artist 1894; Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, 1895; Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago, from 1895; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.