Marshall Joseph Smith, Jr.
(Virginia/Louisiana, 1854-1923)

"St. Tammany"

oil on canvas
signed "MJS, Jr.," and titled on stretcher bar, "Frost & Adams, Boston" canvas stamp and "Bowery & Foster, Picture Frames" label en verso.
Period frame.
12" x 15-3/4", framed 16-1/2" x 20-1/4"

Provenance: Private collection, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; New Orleans Auction Galleries, December 5, 2020, lot 105.

Notes: Marshall J. Smith, Jr. was one of the most talented of the late 19th-century Louisiana landscape painters. A student of Richard Clague, Jr., Smith furthered his studies at the Accademia dei Medici in Rome and the Royal Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Smith, along with fellow pupil William Henry Buck, accompanied Clague into the rural bayous, swamps and fields, often inaccessible by road, to record the landscape and daily life of tenant farmers and fishermen. In the painting "St. Tammany", a woman of color wearing a scarlet tignon leads her cattle homeward toward a small cabin in a clearing of moss-laden live oak trees.

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