View of Springfield on the Connecticut River
- Artist: Alvan Fisher, American, 1792-1863
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dates: 1819
- Dimensions: 31 5/8 x 43 11/16 in. (80.4 x 111 cm)
- Signature: Signed lower left: "A. Fisher / Pinxt / 1819"
- Collections: American Art
- Museum Location:
This item is not on view - Accession Number: 50.65
- Credit Line: Dick S. Ramsay Fund
- Image: Overall, 50.65_reference_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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.
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