Object number1864.1.21
Evening at Paestum
Date1856
Artist
Jasper Francis Cropsey
(American, 1823-1900)
CultureAmerican
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsUnframed: 9 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (24.13 x 39.37 cm)
Framed: 16 5/8 x 22 5/8 x 2 7/8 in. (42.23 x 57.47 x 7.3 cm)
Framed: 16 5/8 x 22 5/8 x 2 7/8 in. (42.23 x 57.47 x 7.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar
On View
On viewPeriod19th c
Classification(s)
SignedSigned lower right: J. F. Cropsey
InscribedBy artist, lower right: 1856
BibliographyFoshay, Ella M., and Sally Mills. All Seasons and Every Light: Nineteenth Century American Landscapes from the Collection of Elias Lyman Magoon. Poughkeepsie, N.Y: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1983, p. 48;
Kerry, Dean Carso. “The Nineteenth-Century Delight in Decay.” Hudson River Valley Review, Hudson River Valley Institute, vol. 31, no. 16, Autumn 2014, p. 47, no. 8;
Koenig, Monica Anke. America and the Grand Tour: Sanford Robinson Gifford at Home and Abroad. Poughkeepsie, N.Y: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1991;
Madigan, Mark. "Paestum": An Unpublished Poem from Cathers's Grand Tour of Italy. Nebraska: Willa Cather Foundation, 2011, vol. 55, no. 2, cover;
Nobuyuki, Okabe. Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. Japan: Yamagata Museum of Art, 2008, cat. no. 7;
Speiser, Anthony M. Francis Cropsey, Catalogue Raisonne Works in Oil, Volume One: 1842-1863. New York: Newington-Cropsey Foundation, 2013, p. 231, fig. 402 ProvenanceCollections: Elias MagoonVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryAll Seasons and Every Light, Vassar College Art Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 14 - December 16, 1983; DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, February 5 - March 25, 1984; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, March 25 - July 1, 1984; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, November 16, 1984 - January 13, 1985;America and the Grand Tour: Sanford Robinson Gifford at Home and Abroad, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 17 - June 9, 1991;
The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, June 21- September 20, 1998;
A Focused Collection: The Hudson River School, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, April 21 - July 29, 2007; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, August 17 - October 19, 2007;
Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, Shimane Art Museum, Matsue, Japan, March 7 - May 11, 2008; Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume, Japan, May 17 - July 20, 2008; Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, Japan, July 30 - August 31, 2008; Fuchu Art Museum, Fuchu, Japan, September 6 - November 3, 2008; Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan, November 14 - December 14, 2008
Label TextLike most Hudson River School landscape artists, Jasper Cropsey made grand-tour sketching trips to Europe as part of his artistic education. In 1848, while on his first visit to Italy, he traveled to Paestum, an ancient city along the western coast south of Naples that is dotted with Greek and Roman architectural ruins. Cropsey rendered this romantic twilight view of the temple of Hera in 1856, years after he had visited. Painted for Elias Lyman Magoon, future Vassar College trustee, for $30, it was shown at the National Academy of Design in New York to much acclaim. Magoon's collection was purchased by Matthew Vassar and forms the core collection of the art center.
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