Coast+of+Genoa,+The

Date: 1854
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1984/1984.162_1a.jpg?itok=LdWkHxc1 width="363" height="244" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/the-coast-of-genoa-5975"]] || Title: **The Coast of Genoa**

Artist: **Jasper Francis Cropsey** Born: Rossville, New York 1823 Died: Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 1900

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 48 1/4 x 72 1/2 in. (122.4 x 184.2 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Aileen B. Train, Helen B. Spaulding and Julia B. Key

Accession: 1984.162 || Dramatic flowing clouds and choppy water suggest Genoa's wind-swept coast. The medieval tower, or “lanterna,” is at right, but the remaining scene is most likely a fantasy. This ambitious seascape, painted in Cropsey's New York studio, appealed to mid-century interest in Italy. Visits to Italy provided tourists and artists an opportunity to return to America with a deeper, richer sense of artistic tradition.
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