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
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...