Lot 4
Amazing oil on cardboard signed on the back and attributed to Gustave Henry Mosler. The dimensions of the painting are 6" w x 7.25" h. The original frame is 3" wide. Biography from The Johnson Collection For more than one hundred and forty years, Henry Mosler's painting The Lost Cause has been an iconic presence in Southern culture, widely distributed as a chromolithograph in the years after its creation and cherished for the tender sense of loss it conveys. That it was created by a Jewish immigrant and loyal Unionist might be thought ironic unless his synergy with the Confederate veteran who commissioned it is considered. Born in New York, Mosler began his career as an illustrator and war correspondent for Harper's Weekly. In that capacity, he came to know the Ohio River Valley, the West Virginia region near Huntington and the south-central area of Kentucky. Mosler abandoned his journalistic career in 1863 and traveled to Europe to enroll at the art academy in D»sseldorf, Germany. There, he studied with Albert Kindler and Heinrich Karl Anton M»cke, before moving on to Paris in 1865 for six months' instruction under Ernest H_bert. Upon his return to Cincinnati in 1866, Mosler met the wealthy Kentuckian Albert Berry, for whom he painted The Lost Cause. The two men had both been present at the Battle of Perryville, the bloodiest in the Kentucky campaign; Mosler's drawing of that confrontation had been published in Harper's on November 1, 1862. Mosler remained in Cincinnati working primarily as a portrait painter between 1866 and 1874, when he moved to Europe. Prior to settling in Paris, he studied with Karl Theodor von Piloty in Munich. Once established in France, he began to create historical genre paintings, one of which, The Return of the Prodigal Son, was the hit of the Paris season of 1879 and was subsequently purchased by the French government. In the years that followed, Mosler became a member of the French Academy and won the Silver Medal for Painting at the Paris Exposition of 1889. In 1894, the artist relocated to New York; his work from these later years depicted patriotic episodes from American history. A member of the National Academy of Design, Mosler is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Museum, Butler Institute and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The Lost Cause "takes as its subject the devastation of the war in the South as it affected, not the wealthy plantation owner, but rather the yeoman farmer of the highlands." Mosler placed the sagging Confederate veteranhead bowed, leaning on his musket and awkwardly attired in heavy seasonal gearoutside a deserted log cabin. The dilapidated structure stands in a landscape teeming with the promise of spring, a powerful and poignant contrast to the soldier's obvious despair. The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina
- Condition: Very good condition. Provenance from estate sale in France to private collector in Palm Beach.
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