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
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...