Tourn Mountain, Head Quarters of Washington, Rockland Co., New York

Jasper Francis Cropsey1851

Details

Title: Tourn Mountain, Head Quarters of Washington, Rockland Co., New York
Creator: Jasper Francis Cropsey
Date Created: 1851
Physical Dimensions: overall: 57.94 × 70.49 cm (22 13/16 × 27 3/4 in.) framed: 80.65 × 93.35 × 8.89 cm (31 3/4 × 36 3/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Provenance: Purchased by 1857 from the artist by William Wilson Corcoran [1798-1888], Washington;[1] gift 1869 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art. [1] The artist lent the painting to an 1853 exhibition at the Massachusetts Academy of Fine Arts. He kept a list of sales in his Account Book, 1843-68, but there is no record of a sale to Corcoran (Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, microfilmed in the Jasper Francis Cropsey Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: reel 336, no frame number), in whose 1857 collection catalogue the painting is listed as _Washington's Headquarters on the Hudson River_.
Rights: CC0
Medium: oil on canvas

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