View of a Mountain [verso]
Jasper Francis Cropsey
1801 to 1825
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Medium
graphite on brown paper
Dimensions
sheet: 12.3 × 30.4 cm (4 13/16 × 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Julius S. Held Collection, Avalon Fund
Accession Number
1984.3.8.b
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Jasper Francis Cropsey · 1823–1900
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...