File:Frederic Edwin Church - Niagara Falls - WGA04867.jpg

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Captions

English

Frederic Edwin Church. Niagara. 1857. Oil on canvas, 3'6½" x 7'6½" (1.08 x 2.30 m). Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Frederic Edwin Church: Niagara

Artist



Alternative names	Frederick Edwin Church
Description	American painter, landscape painter, art collector and traveler
Date of birth/death	4 May 1826	7 April 1900
Location of birth/death	Hartford	New York City
Work location	Catskill; New York City; Ecuador; Colombia; Petra; Rome; Colony of Jamaica; Mexico; Olana State Historic Site; Jamaica
Authority file	: Q366212 VIAF: 42087786 ISNI: 0000000121299599 ULAN: 500115265 LCCN: n81068777 NLA: 35028323 WorldCat

Title

Niagara

Object type

painting

Genre

landscape art

Date

1857

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 101.6 cm (40 in); width: 229.9 cm (90.5 in)

Collection

National Gallery of Art

	Native name	National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
	Location	Washington, D.C., United States of America
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 29″ N, 77° 01′ 12″ W
	Established	17 March 1941
	Website	www.nga.gov
	Authority file	: Q214867 VIAF: 3064149198328574940008 ISNI: 0000000123753994 ULAN: 500115983 LCCN: n79054426 NAID: 10479068 WorldCat

Current location

West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 67

Accession number

2014.79.10

Place of creation

United States of America

Credit line

Corcoran Collection, Inv. No. 76.15 (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom right:

F.E. Church / 1857

References

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Source/Photographer

Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork
reference_wga QS:P973,"http://www.wga.hu/html/c/church/niagara.html"
Bridgeman Art Library: Object 445386
#National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection

Permission
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	19:40, 21 January 2016	4,998 × 2,320 (3.76 MB)	Trzęsacz (talk \| contribs)	http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.166436.html
	07:21, 5 January 2013	2,000 × 923 (1.24 MB)	Botaurus (talk \| contribs)	http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/445386
	06:06, 9 June 2011	1,520 × 700 (191 KB)	JarektUploadBot (talk \| contribs)	{{Artwork \|artist = {{Creator:Frederic Edwin Church}} \|title = Niagara Falls \|description = \|date = 1857 \|medium = {{Oil on canvas}} \|dimensions = {{size\|unit