View near Sherburne, Chenango County, New York
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
33 1/8 x 48 3/8 in. (84.1 x 122.9 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Sarah Ann Ludlum, 1877
Accession Number
77.3.2
Tags
CowsLandscapes
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...