Ducks in the Woods

Julie Hart Beers American

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.

#4030. Ducks in the Woods

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Ducks in the Woods, Julie Hart Beers (American, 1835–1913), Oil on canvas, American

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