Lake Como, May 3, 1869 (verso, from sketchbook)

Lake Como, May 3, 1869 (verso, from sketchbook)

Jervis McEntee

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

McEntee studied landscape painting with Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900) and had close ties with many of the artists of the Hudson River School. In 1868–69, he traveled to England, France, Italy, and Belgium. This small, portable sketchbook contains drawings made in the Roman Campagna and the Italian Lake District. As in this drawing of Lake Como, McEntee often spread his compositions across both sheets of his open sketchbook to record broad panoramic vistas.

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.