Harbor Landscape

Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Thomas Doughty was one of the first American artists to devote himself solely to landscape painting. Landscape after Ruisdael is based on a painting by the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Jacob van Ruisdael that Doughty copied during a visit to the Louvre in Paris. Copying played an important educational role for this self-trained artist.
His earlier Harbor Landscape presents a pleasing, albeit formulaic, vista of a calm lake framed by trees in the foreground. Rather than depicting any specific American locale, the painting reflects Doughty’s dependence on drawing manuals and European landscape traditions as models for his work.
Caption
Thomas Doughty American, 1793–1856. Harbor Landscape, 1834. Oil on canvas, 26 1/4 x 35 15/16 in. (66.6 x 91.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Caroline H. Polhemus Fund, 14.571. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.14.571.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Harbor Landscape
Date
1834
Medium
Oil on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
26 1/4 x 35 15/16 in. (66.6 x 91.3 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "T. DOUGHTY / 1834"
Credit Line
Caroline H. Polhemus Fund
Accession Number
14.571
Rights
No known copyright restrictions
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