View of Springfield on the Connecticut River
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Alvan Fisher’s bucolic view of Springfield, Massachusetts, from across the Connecticut River typifies the kind of landscapes that were popular in the period. It describes a specific locale—note the steepled First Church on the far bank—using the well-known artistic vocabulary of the “Claudian” landscape. This compositional format, based on the widely emulated works of the seventeenth-century French painter Claude Lorrain, creates an ordered progression through space from a dark foreground stage framed by trees to a well-lit body of water in the middle ground to hazy hills in the background.
Caption
Alvan Fisher American, 1792–1863. View of Springfield on the Connecticut River, 1819. Oil on canvas, 41 × 53 × 3 in. (104.1 × 134.6 × 7.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 50.65. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 50.65_SL3.jpg)
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Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
View of Springfield on the Connecticut River
Date
1819
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
41 × 53 × 3 in. (104.1 × 134.6 × 7.6 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower left: "A. Fisher / Pinxt / 1819"
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
50.65
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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