Description:
blue sky with puffy clouds, distant view on right of curving river with small boat in water and small settlement on banks, five men and three women having a picnic on mountain at left fromt, one of figure's standing near the column of an open building; landscape; water; mountain; vegetation; man; woman; leisure/recreation
Label Text:
Victor de Grailly was a formally trained French artist who exhibited academic landscapes at the Paris Salons. He was also a copyist, and made numerous paintings after William Henry Bartlett's illustrations for "American Scenery" (published in London, 1840). This painting is based on one of the most famous views associated with this region, but de Grailly has added a few interpolations of his own to Bartlett's depiction of the Ox Bow as seen from the summit of Mount Holyoke. it is likely the French artist never traveled to this country, much less to Northampton, and therefore never saw any of the sites he depicted in his American paintings.
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