Landscape
Jasper Francis CROPSEY
(American, 1823-1900)
Landscape
Date1850s
Mediumoil on canvas, mounted on board
Dimensionsoverall: 11 3/4 x 9 in. (29.8 x 22.9 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of George F. MacMurray
Object number1963.42
Subject(s)
- autumn
- landscape
- river
- boat
- cow
Collection
- 19th century American
Sub-Collection(s)
- Hudson River School
On View
On viewLabel TextCropsey’s early work was characterized by an exacting fidelity to nature, unidealized. It makes sense then, that when he moved to London in 1856, he should have found the naturalist credo of the influential critic John Ruskin to be especially sympathetic. Victorian Londoners were much drawn to exquisite autumnal views of the Hudson River such as this. In 1860, Cropsey won critical acclaim for a large-scale autumnal landscape, now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, which led to the crowning glory of his career: a formal introduction to Queen Victoria herself in 1861.
