Artist/Maker
William Sidney Mount
(American, 1807 – 1868)
Collector
Luman Reed
(American, 1787 – 1836)
Bargaining for a Horse (Farmers Bargaining)
1835
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 24 × 30 in. (61 × 76.2 cm)
Framed: 35 1/2 × 41 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (90.2 × 105.4 × 14 cm)
Framed: 35 1/2 × 41 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (90.2 × 105.4 × 14 cm)
Gift of the New-York Gallery of the Fine Arts
1858.59
Bargaining for a Horse, which was painted for the New York collector and art patron, Luman Reed, is perhaps Mount's best-known canvas, and was called Farmers Bargaining by Reed and was exhibited under that title at the National Academy in 1836.
SignedSigned and dated at lower left: Wm. S. Mount / 1835
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