Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009359A Calm Watering Place--Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle
by Alvan Fisher
About the Artwork
In this prime example of Fisher’s early rural pictures, a ferry delivers two wealthy women and their belongings ashore, as a herd of especially handsome cattle rests in the foreground. Boston-based Fisher was among the first American artists to specialize in landscape, recalling that “This species of painting being novel in this part of the country, I found it a more lucrative, pleasant and distinguishing branch of the art than portrait painting.”
Provenance
(Alexander Gallery, New York)
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Alvan Fisher (American, 1792–1863)
- Date
- 1816
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 78 x 102.2 cm (30 11/16 x 40 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Accession no.
- 1994.106
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