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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection Source

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Winslow Homer

American, 1836–1910

The Herring Net

Date: 1885
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 76.5 × 122.9 cm (30 1/8 × 48 3/8 in.)
Inscription: Signed and dated lower left
Department: American Art

Estimate £5,000,000 – 7,000,000

Offered in Old Masters, Antiquities & Arms, 27 September 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, Boston
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

New York, annual exhibition, 1886

Literature

Goodrich, Winslow Homer, p. 88

Condition

Unlined. The grey marine palette is unfaded and the surface unabraded.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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