A River Glimpse
ca. 1843–50
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 1/4 in. × 25 in. (76.8 × 63.5 cm) Framed: 39 1/8 × 34 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (99.3 × 87 × 7 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1895
Accession Number
95.17.2
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About this artwork
This serene landscape painting represents Thomas Doughty's mature achievement as America's first artist to work exclusively as a landscape painter. Created circa 1843–50, the work exemplifies Doughty's characteristic approach: contemplative, lyrical scenes that bridge eighteenth-century English pastoral traditions with the more dramatic language of the American Sublime later perfected by Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School. Doughty, who lived from 1793 to 1856, helped establish landscape pai...
About the Artist
Thomas Doughty
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