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- Titles The Cascade at Tivoli (Proper)
- Artist Claude-Joseph Vernet, French, 1714 - 1789
- Medium oil on canvas
- Dimensions 38 1/2 x 53 1/4 in. (97.8 x 135.3 cm) frame: 47 1/4 × 62 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (120 × 158.8 × 6.4 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Beaux Arts Krewe in honor of Mrs. Elbert (Sallye) Martin and by Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hulsey, and Martee Woodward Webb, 1985.3
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- On View
- Inscription Verso, top stretcher bar, center, typed label: [top half ripped] / No 35094 / BY APPOINTMENT / TO THE LATE KING GEORGE VI / London, 43, Old Bond Street / Piccadilly, W. Verso, top stretcher bar, upper left, typed label: [ripped] NEW & SO [ripped] LTD.
- Provenance William Danby, the younger, (d. 1833); by bequest to his wife Mrs. Danby Vernon Harcourt (d. 1879), Swinton Park, by 1865 [see note 1]; by bequest to George Danby Affleck, later known as George Danby Danby, 1879 [see note 2]; purchased by Samuel Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Lord Masham, with the Swinton Estate, 1882; inherited by to his granddaughter Molly (d. 1974) and her husband Philip Lloyd-Greame (d. 1972), who assumed the name Cunliff-Lister and in 1935 were created Viscount and Viscountess Swinton and in 1955 1st Earl and Countess of Swinton, 1924 until at least 1963 [see note 3]; probably bought by dealers Oscar and Peter Johnson, Ltd., London, by 1967, until at least 1970 [see note 4]. J.E. Bulmer, London [see note 5]; auctioned at Sotheby’s, London, December 12, 1979, lot 22. Dealer Alexander Gallery, London, 1983 [see note 7]. Private collection, New York; auctioned at Sotheby’s, New York, January 17, 1985, lot 169; purchased by Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1985
1. John Fisher, The History and Antiquities of Masham and Mashamshire…, London, 1865, p. 168, “The Cascade at Tivoli, &c.—Vernet, Joseph” is noted as in the Drawing Room. National Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, 1868, Leeds, 1969, no. 410, lent by Mrs. Danby Vernon- Harcourt (née Anne Holwell Gater), who had inherited Swinton Estate and the painting from her first husband William Danby, the younger, d. 1833. In 1838 she married Rear-Adm. Octavius Vernon-Harcourt (d. 1863).
2. 5th son of Sir Robert Affleck, 4th Bt., he was the grandnephew of Mary Affleck, who was married to William Danby, the elder (d. 1781), the first mother-in-law of Mrs. Danby Vernon-Harcourt.
3. Philip Cunliffe-Lister (1884-1972), 1st earl Swinton, was born Philip Lloyd-Greame but changed his name to Cunliff-Lister when his wife inherited Masham Estate from her grandfather in 1924. She was also known as Lady Masham.
4. Oscar and Peter Johnson, Ltd. organized the exhibition London, Lowndes Lodge Gallery, Pictures and Drawings from Yorkshire Houses, April 1963 - May, 1963, no. 18, ill. Lent by The Rt. Hon. The Earl and Countess of Swinton. Oscar and Peter Johnson Ltd. Then lent the painting for the exhibition London, Kenwood, The Iveagh Bequest, The Origins of Landscape Painting in England, 1967, no. 27. 1985.3 then appeared in an advertisement for the dealer in April 1970 in The Connoisseur.
5. Auctioned but bought-in at Sotheby’s, London, July 12, 1972, lot 17, bought-in at £7,500.
6. Annotation by Neil McLaren on photograph at the Getty Research Institute.
7. According to annotation on photo at the Getty Research Institute.