Castel San Elmo (from Cropsey Album)

Jasper Francis Cropsey

1848 · Graphite, white gouache, and watercolor on dark buff-colored wove paper · The American Wing

The inscription on this delicate, distant view identifies the hilltop fortress, the darker building in the background, as the fourteenth-century Castel Sant’Elmo, overlooking the city of Naples. The white building in front is the Certosa di San Martino, a former Carthusian monastery (now a museum).

Artist

Jasper Francis Cropsey

Date

1848

Medium

Graphite, white gouache, and watercolor on dark buff-colored wove paper

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970