| Date: | undated |
| Medium: | oil on canvas |
| Size: | 12 x 24 inches (30 x 61 cm) |
| Inscription: | l/r "F. Schafer", fraktur hand, underlined |
| Verso: | u/l "CARMAL.MISSION EST. 1770/CALIFORNIA", unknown hand; l/r "CARMALMISS/CALIFONIA", unknown hand, may continue under stretcher bar. |
| Provenance: | In private collection, California, by 1956; to private collection, Houston, Texas, 1956. |
| Site: | The mission San Carlos Borremeo de Carmel, located in the modern city of Carmel, California. |
| Description: | The isolated adobe mission building, consisting of a cupola-topped bell tower, an arched doorway, and a smaller tower, with red tile roofed buildings behind, stands beside a trail across a grassy desert. A milepost and a small figure stand in front of the mission, back to the viewer, on the trail, which continues past a fence beyond the mission toward a gentle slope leading upward to the right. The sky is gray and cloudy. (From a color photograph.) |
| Note: | 1. The modest size and the inscription that extends under the stretcher bar suggest that the painting may have been done on site. 2. A 17 November 1886 auction advertisement by Bovee, Toy and Co. that mentions "Missions of California sketches" may be related, and might help establish the approximate date of this painting. |
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