Landscape
1884 or 1889
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
9 x 12 3/4 in. (22.9 x 31.2 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
Accession Number
67.187.211
Tags
Art Historical Context
George Inness's *Landscape* (1884 1889), a oil on canvas measuring just 9 x 12¾ inches, exemplifies the intimate scale often favored by this American master for poetic studies of nature. Housed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Wing, this work entered the collection through the generous bequest of Adelaide Milton de Groot in 1967. Inness, active during the late 19th century, the dramatic vistas of the Hudson River School the softer, more atmospheric Tonalism that defined his mature style. Painted in oil—a medium Inness wielded to evoke luminous veils of light and mist—the piece captures the...
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...