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Castel San Elmo (from Cropsey Album)

Attributed to Jasper Francis Cropsey American
1848
Not on view
The inscription on this delicate, distant view identifies the hilltop fortress, the darker building in the background, as the fourteenth-century Castel Sant’Elmo, overlooking the city of Naples. The white building in front is the Certosa di San Martino, a former Carthusian monastery (now a museum).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Castel San Elmo (from Cropsey Album)
  • Artist: Attributed to Jasper Francis Cropsey (American, Rossville, New York 1823–1900 Hastings-on-Hudson, New York)
  • Date: 1848
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Graphite, white gouache, and watercolor on dark buff-colored wove paper
  • Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 9 9/16 in. (17.5 x 24.3 cm)
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970
  • Object Number: 1970.9.4
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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