Villa d'Este, Tivoli
Medium
graphite with touches of white heightening and brown wash on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 29.8 x 42.2 cm (11 3/4 x 16 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection, Avalon Fund
Accession Number
1981.4.4
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...