Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 1001 Bissonnet Street Houston Texas 77005 Accession Number: 76.200
Date:
1849
Notes:
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "A Permanent Legacy: 150 Works from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1989, pg. 270.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "A Guide to the Collection," 1981, pg. 95.
Summary:
An artist is seated in the foreground making a sketch of Mount Mansfield, which looms in the background amid the Green Mountains of northwestern Vermont. The foreground is dark and shaded with patches of sunlight, and a few trees on the left side of the canvas.
