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[photo] Evening on Fallen Leaf Lake, Lake Tahoe, California [3]

Medium: Oil on canvas.
Size: 30 x 20 in (76 x 51 cm) (reported as 29 x 19 in)
Inscription: Appears to be signed l/l but not legible in the available photograph.
Verso: See Note.
Provenance: Offered for $35,000, by Old Sarum Gallery, Salisbury, North Carolina, by January 2025.
Reproductions: On cited website.
Citations: www.oldsarumgallery.com/our-collection/current-inventory/64-lake-tahoe-ca-frederick-ferdinand-schafer (viewed 18 January 2025)
Site: Fallen Leaf Lake, just west of Lake Tahoe, was a frequent subject for 19th century west coast landscape artists.
Note: The website listing gives the title, complete with quotation marks, as "Ev. on Fallen Leafe Lake, Lake Tahoe, California". The painting Evening on Fallen Leaf Lake, California [1] has a verso inscription with the same abbreviation and misspelled lake name, suggesting that the title of this painting may have come from a verso inscription.
Identification: Title from sale listing, expanding abbreviations and changing "Leafe" to "Leaf".
In index(es): Title list, lake cove scenes, Lake Tahoe and environs, sunset scenes

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