DETAILS
- Artist
- Jervis McEntee
- Date
- 1869
- Medium
- Graphite, white gouache, on blue paper
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 4 1/2 x 9 in. (11.4 x 22.9 cm)
- Collection
- The American Wing
- Culture
- American
- Credit line
- Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1982
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THE ARTIST
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee, a Hudson River School painter, captured the quiet, pensive beauty of autumn and the changing American landscape.
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