Farm Scene with Cottages (from Cropsey Album)
Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
2 3/8 x 4 7/16 in. (6 x 11.3 cm)
Classification
Drawing
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970
Accession Number
1970.9.9
Tags
HousesTrees
About the Artist
Jasper Francis Cropsey
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900) was an American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, the influential mid-nineteenth-century movement that celebrated the natural grandeur of the American continent in large, luminous canvases. Born on Staten Island, New York, Cropsey initially trained as an architect — a background that gave him a strong sense of spatial structure and formal...