View through the Trees at Tivoli [recto]
![View through the Trees at Tivoli [recto] by Jasper Francis Cropsey](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/view-through-the-trees-at-tivoli-recto-nga-62976.webp)
Medium
graphite with brown wash on brown paper
Dimensions
sheet: 30.4 × 12.3 cm (11 15/16 × 4 13/16 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.a
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...