Hillside at Étretat
1876
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 65.41 × 97.47 cm (25 3/4 × 38 3/8 in.) framed: 82.55 × 114.3 × 5.08 cm (32 1/2 × 45 × 2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund and William A. Clark Fund)
Accession Number
2014.136.79
About the Artist
George Inness · 1825–1894
George Inness (1825–1894) was an American landscape painter regarded as one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American art, bridging the Hudson River School tradition and a more personal, spiritually-inflected vision of nature. Born near Newburgh, New York, he received limited formal training, studying briefly with Régis François Gignoux, but was largely self-taught, developing h...