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MOUNT WASHINGTON FROM LAKE SEBAGO
Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823–1900)
Signed and dated lower right: J. F. Cropsey 1867
Oil on canvas, 20 x 32 inches
Private collection
InAugust 1849, Jasper F. Cropsey set out from New York City on a two-week
sketching excursion to the White Mountains. Traversing Sebago Lake, about
fifty miles from Mount Washington, Cropsey made two studies inscribed “Lake
Sebago.” Later, in 1867, he used one of these studies, a distant
view of Mount Washington, as the source for at least five canvases. The
foregrounds, which differ in each of Cropsey’s three large paintings
of the mountain, were products of the artist’s imagination. Working
in his New York City studio, Cropsey turned his sketches into an autumnal view
with the distant peak of Mount Washington covered by snow.
