View on the Hudson in Autumn (1850)
Thomas Doughty1850 · Landscape · Public domain
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Provenance and rights
- Rights
- Public domain (artist died 1856)
Specifications
- Year
- 1850
- Nationality / school
- American
- Lifespan
- 1793–1856
About the artwork
Thomas Doughty is the artist behind "View on the Hudson in Autumn", dated 1850. Context for 1850: The first half of the nineteenth century moved from Neoclassicism to Romanticism, which placed emotion, nature, and the sublime at the centre of painting. The invention of lithography around 1796 and its spread in these decades made printed images cheaper and more varied. The catalogue places it in Landscape. The format is landscape. Background on Landscape: Painters have used landscape to study light, weather, season, and the relation between people and place. Landscape became an independent genre in European painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, while in East Asia it had long been central to ink painting.
"View on the Hudson in Autumn" is shown in the onlly.art catalogue for reference and browsing. A landscape format suits wide, low wall spaces such as the stretch above a bed, mantel, or sideboard. Browsing works by the same artist, or from the same period, is a good way to compare styles before choosing what suits your space.
About the artist
American, 1793–1856
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