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Title: Lake George. Artist: John Frederick Kensett (American, Cheshire, Connecticut 1816–1872 New York) Date: 1869. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 44 1/8 x 66 3/8 in. (112.1 x 168.6 cm) Credit Line: Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914. Accession Number: 15.30.61
El lago George es el tema de varias obras de John Frederick Kensett, un pintor de paisajes, miembro de la Escuela del río Hudson, que evolucionó progresivamente hacia una rama de esta escuela, llamada luminismo americano.
- 1860
- Escuela del Río Hudson-Luminismo Americano
- John Frederick Kensett
- Óleo sobre lienzo
Dimensions. 112.1 cm × 168.6 cm (44.1 in × 66.4 in) Location. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Accession. 15.30.61. Lake George is a mid 19th century painting by American artist John Frederick Kensett. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts Lake George in upstate New York.
- 112.1 cm × 168.6 cm (44.1 in × 66.4 in)
- John Frederick Kensett
- 1869
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan’s large Lake George, 1869, painted for the wealthy New Yorker Morris K. Jesup, is perhaps the masterpiece of Kensett’s renderings of this site. In general, however, the artist was usually most effective on canvases of thirty inches wide or less.
Overview. Provenance. Title: Lake George, Free Study. Artist: John Frederick Kensett (American, Cheshire, Connecticut 1816–1872 New York) Date: 1872. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 10 x 14 1/8 in. (25.4 x 35.9 cm) Credit Line: Gift of Thomas Kensett, 1874. Accession Number: 74.20. Learn more about this artwork.
Junto a las cataratas del Niágara, las White Mountains y el propio Hudson, las plácidas aguas de lago George, rodeadas de montañas, constituían el perfecto motivo para representar la sublime naturaleza salvaje.
Located close to the Niagara Falls, the White Mountains and the Hudson itself, the placid waters of Lake George, surrounded by mountains, were a perfect motif for portraying sublime, wild nature. John Frederick Kensett, a member of the second generation of American landscape artists, not only travelled to this lake during summer but made it one ...
