"Layfaeete" [Lafayette?] (from Sketchbook)
!["Layfaeete" [Lafayette?] (from Sketchbook) by John William Casilear](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ad/thumb/layfaeete-lafayette-from-sketchbook-16520.webp)
Medium
Graphite, pen and ink, and watercolor on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
12 11/16 x 7 3/4 in. (32.2 x 19.7 cm)
Classification
Watercolor
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1979
Accession Number
1979.581.10
Tags
Men
About the Artist
John William Casilear · 1811–1893
John William Casilear, born on June 25, 1811, in New York City, began his artistic career as an engraver, apprenticed under the prominent Peter Maverick in 1826. He later studied painting under Asher B. Durand in 1831, forming a close friendship that profoundly shaped his path. Durand, influenced by Thomas Cole, introduced Casilear to landscape painting by the mid-1830s, transitioning him from ban...