Details

Title

Lake Scene

Artist/Maker

Thomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856)

Date

1833

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

22 9/16 x 35 1/8 inches

Credit

Purchase with funds from the Friends of Art and the Every Saturday Club, in memory of Mrs. Isaac S. Boyd

Accession #

46.5

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 3, Gallery 308

Among the first American-born landscape artists, Thomas Doughty taught himself to paint by copying British landscape paintings and prints. Lake Scene exhibits the lyrical, atmospheric quality typical of Doughty’s work: it depicts an idyllic imaginary landscape that appears to be set among the grandiose mountains of the Swiss Alps rather than along the Hudson River Valley or New England wilderness where he often worked. Doughty found greatest commercial success with his imaginary, romantic landscapes, such as depicted in this fanciful lake scene.

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