Painting
- Title:
- View in the White Mountains
- Object Name:
- Painting
- Object ID:
- 1931.008
- Creator:
- Champney, Benjamin (1817-1907)
- Place of Origin:
- NH
- Date:
- circa 1880
- Description:
- Landscape painting, View in the White Mountains, by Benjamin Champney (1817-1907), c. 1880. Oil on canvas. Dirt road center foreground leading viewer's eyes to middle ground. Five trees in middle ground. Split-rail fence from center background to right. Two figures standing behind fence in center background. Forests and mountains in background; sky filled with reddish clouds and sunset at right. Signed lower right: "B. Champney". Gilded gesso over wood frame with acanthus leaves exterior molding in high relief and a small foliate band on inset.
- Material:
- Textile
Canvas - Dimensions:
- H-10 W-14 inches
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Joseph F. Meader
- People:
- Champney, Benjamin (1817-1907)
- Subjects:
- White Mountains
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