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Charles Louis Heyde(1822-1892)A View of Lake Champlain and Burlington Bay
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Jelena James
Senior Specialist, Head of Sale

Claire Dettelbach
Cataloguer

Jewel Bernier
Cataloguer
Charles Louis Heyde (1822-1892)
identified and signed or inscribed 'Painted by C.S. Heyde' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
17 x 34 1/4 in. (43.2 x 87.0 cm)
Footnotes
Provenance
From the Meacham Family Collection, Cleveland, Ohio.
Thence by descent.
N.B.
Charles Louis Heyde was one of Vermont's most celebrated 19th-century painters. He painted and lived for a time in New Jersey and Brooklyn, exhibiting at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Boston Athenaeum. Shortly after marrying Walt Whitman's sister, Hannah, in 1852, the couple moved to Vermont, where Heyde finally found the inspiring landscape for which he had been searching. He set up a studio in Burlington and continued painting throughout the state and along the Connecticut River Valley.
The present work is an exceptional addition to Heyde's known oeuvre. Lake Champlain was a recurring source of artistic inspiration for Heyde; his majestic depictions of the lake and its surrounding landscape evoke the sentimental, pastoral Vermont that the Hudson River School artists sought to capture, and were popular among locals and tourists alike. We are transported into a romantic vision of late 19th-century New England with a dreamlike sunset sky, crisply silhouetted mountains, and miniscule boats and cows below. Heyde, like so many other painters of his time, felt and painted with a deep reverence for the natural world. His paintings suggest the moral and aesthetic virtue of a simple life. Absent are any signs of the railway or other industrial marks on the land; instead, he embraced an Arcadian vision that remains untouched in the face of change. Sweeping vistas such as the present work are iconic representations of Vermont and New England that represent not only a landscape but also a cultural and local identity.
We would like to thank Thomas Pierce, co-author of Charles Louis Heyde: Nineteenth-Century Vermont Landscape Painter (Burlington, VT: Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 2001), for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.
























