Ducks in the Woods

1875

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 761

One of America’s first professional woman landscape painters, Hart Beers developed a reputation for highly detailed forest views. Although the precise location of this quiet and contemplative landscape is unknown, it was likely inspired by on-the-spot sketches executed in New Jersey or upstate New York. Hart Beers’s fidelity to nature reveals the influence of the English critic John Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, whose meticulous landscapes challenged the romanticized aesthetics of the so-called Hudson River School.

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Title: Ducks in the Woods
Artist: Julie Hart Beers (American, 1835–1913)
Date: 1875
Culture: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 26 × 18 in. (66 × 45.7 cm)
Credit Line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2023
Object Number: 2023.417
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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