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Autumn Study, View over Hanging Rock, Newport, R.I.

John La Farge American
1868
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
La Farge often painted the scenery in and around Newport, Rhode Island, where he maintained a residence from 1859 to 1879. One of his favorite subjects was Bishop Berkeley’s Rock, which terminates a ridge in Paradise Hills. This view of the rock appeared under its present title in 1884 at a sale of the contents of La Farge’s studio. The artist’s failure to show the painting earlier implies that he did not consider it finished; the rough brushwork and sketchy surface—in places, little more than a wash of thinned oil paint over the canvas—support that notion.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Autumn Study, View over Hanging Rock, Newport, R.I.
  • Artist: John La Farge (American, New York 1835–1910 Providence, Rhode Island)
  • Date: 1868
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Frank Jewett Mather Jr., 1949
  • Object Number: 49.76
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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