View from Mt. Holyoke, De Grailly, c. 1845

V iew from Mt. Holyoke Victor De Grailly, c. 1845
Oil on canvas 19 1/16 x 23 7/16 (48.42 x 59.33 )

Although he never visited the United States, Victor De Grailly became one of its most prolific portraitists by using William Henry Bartlett views in American Scenery (1840) as his inspiration. Born in Paris in 1804, De Grailly studied with Jean Victor Bertin (the teacher of Corot) and enjoyed a long career as a landscape painter, exhibiting almost every year at the Paris Salon from 1833-1880. His multiple copies of the View from Mt. Holyoke suggests the popularity of that scene for European and American audiences.

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