Winslow Homer (1836-1910)
Volante on a Mountain Road
signed and dated 'Winslow Homer 1885' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board
13 ¹⁄₈ x 20 ¹⁄₈ in. (33.2 x 51 cm.)
Executed in 1885.

PROVENANCE
The artist.
Charles S. Homer, Jr., New York, by bequest from the above, 1910.
Valentine Family/Valentine & Co., New York, gift from the above, 1912 until at least 1939.
Lawson Valentine Pulsifer, Mountainville, New York, by 1949.
Natalie Pulsifer Byles, by descent, 1957.
Private collection, Brooklyn, New York.
Christie’s, New York, 25 May 1989, lot 73, sold by the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

EXHIBITED
(Possibly) New York, Reichard & Co., Water-color Views by Winslow Homer, December 9, 1885-January 1886, no. 33 (as View near Town).
(Possibly) Boston, Massachusetts, Exhibition of Paintings by Walter Gay and Water Color Drawings by Winslow Homer, N.A., February 19-March 3, 1886, no. 26 (as View near Town).
(Possibly) Chicago, Illinois, O'Brien Art Gallery, Oils and Watercolors by Winslow Homer, December 1894.
(Possibly) New York, M. Knoedler & Co., 1911 (as Calash).
Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona, Yankee Painter: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Graphics, October 11-December 1, 1963, no. 17 (as Horse Drawn Sulky with Rider).


LITERATURE
(Possibly) "Paintings by Winslow Homer--A Distinctively American Artist--His Work in Tropical Countries," Chicago Herald, December 16, 1894, n.p.
G. Hendricks, The Life and Works of Winslow Homer, New York, 1979, pp. 181, 183, fig. 276, illustrated (as Volante (or Calash, Cuba)).
L. Goodrich, A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1883 Through 1889, vol. IV.2, New York, 2012, pp. 372-73, no. 1310, illustrated.