Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. --mhm

Scene from The Tempest

Attribution Robert Edge Pine (English, 1730 - 1788)

Previous Attribution Edward Hicks (American, 1780-1849)

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1785

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Overall, Frame: 31 1/4 x 36 1/4 in. (79.4 x 92.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Object number80.181.9

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DescriptionOil on canvas painting. At the extreme left, in the foreground, is the figure of Prospero with a long, slender rod, resting along his right arm and hand and pointing before him. He holds a paper in his left hand which hangs at his side. To the right of him is his daughter Miranda, who looks at the approaching figure of Ferdinand in the middle distance at the right. Above him and further to the right is the half-length figure of Ariel, in the clouds, playing a harp. At the extreme left, behind Prospero, is Caliban, the "savage and deformed slave." The scene is from the first act of Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest," where Miranda sees Ferdinand for the first time. As he approaches, he hears Ariel sing of the shipwreck and death of Ferdinand's father, the King of Naples.
Label TextAttributed to Robert Edge Pine English, 1730-1788 Scene from The Tempest, ca. 1785 Oil on canvas Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch 80.181.9 ProvenanceEdith Gregor Halpert, New York, NY. To M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY. To Joseph Katz, NY, and returned to M. Knoedler & Co. Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co. by Edgar and Bernice Garbisch, 1947. Gift of Edgar and Bernice Garbisch to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1980.Exhibition History"American Primitive Paintings," Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland, June 19 - Oct. 3, 1954; Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, Oct. 27 - Nov. 20, 1954; Municipal Museum, Dortmund, Germany, Dec. 10 - Jan. 3, 1955; America House, Munich, Germany, Jan. 8 - Feb. 6, 1955; Liljevalch Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 20 - March 15, 1955; Kunstnernes Haus, Oslo, Norway, March 26 - April 17, 1955; Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, England, May 4 - 30, 1955; Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, June 3 - July 3, 1955; Trier Museum, Trier, Germany, Aug. 7 - Sept. 5, 1955. (Exhib. cat. no. 28? 36?). "Other Worlds Exhibition," American British Art Center, New York, Oct. 8 - 27, 1945. (Exhib. cat. no. 14). "Democratic Designs: American Folk Paintings from the Chrysler Museum," Willoughby-Baylor House, Norfolk, VA, August 16, 2014 - April 5, 2015. "Shakespeare and the Americas: A Look Back to the World of The Tempest," Baron and Ellin Art Galleries at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, April 16 - September 23, 2016.Published ReferencesEleanore Price Mather and Dorothy Canning Miller. EDWARD HICKS: HIS PEACEABLE KINGDOMS AND OTHER PAINTINGS. Newark: University of Delaware Press; New York: Cornwall Books. 1983: p. 209. Richard Studing. SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICAN PAINTING: A CATALOGUE FROM THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT. London: Associated University Presses. 1993: p. 78, no. 365.