Seventh Regiment on Review, Washington Square, New York

Seventh Regiment on Review, Washington Square, New York

Otto Boetticher

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Born in Germany, Boetticher is said to have served in the Prussian army before he came to the United States around 1850. He was active as an artist in New York from 1851 to 1859, working in firms that specialized in portraiture and lithography. He is best known today for his images of contemporary military life. This painting depicts a muster of the Seventh Regiment on the northwest corner of the Washington Square parade ground. In the background are two Gothic Revival–style edifices, New York University’s main building (also known as the University Building), to the left, and the Reformed Dutch Church, toward the center; both were demolished in the early 1890s.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.