A Mountain Glimpse

This landscape is by Jasper Francis Cropsey, an American painter associated with the Hudson River School. The landscape depicts a low-lying forest with a clearing seen through a gap in the trees. Two people stand far-off on the other side of the clearing, the only two human figures in the scene. Of the five paintings of Cropsey's that are in the White House Collection, this is the only one that does not have an autumn theme.