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The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain  1858

by Jerome Thompson

Thompson earned a reputation for combining the breadth of Hudson River School landscape painting with the anecdotal appeal of contemporary genre painting. This work is one of several in which he used Mount Mansfield, Vermont’s highest peak, as a foil for domestic recreation. As half the party of day trippers admire the summit and the vista toward Lake Champlain, another yo...
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Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art