"He Turned Their Waters into Blood"

Provenance

Descended in the Cooley family, Sunderland, Massachusetts, to Mrs. Esther Cooley Page.[1] (Robert Schuyler Tompkins, Sheffield, Massachusetts,) by whom sold in 1949 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift to NGA, 1964. [1] The Cooleys were friends and neighbors of the artist when he lived in Plumtrees, Massachusetts. His studio was behind their home.

"He Turned Their Waters into Blood"

Field, Erastus Salisbury

c. 1865/1880

Accession Number

1964.23.3

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.8 x 102.9 cm (30 1/4 x 40 1/2 in.) | framed: 95.2 x 121.9 x 6.3 cm (37 1/2 x 48 x 2 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch