Capri

William Stanley Haseltine (American, 1835–1900)

1869

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Framed: 69.5 x 99.5 x 9 cm (27 3/8 x 39 3/16 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 50 x 80 cm (19 11/16 x 31 1/2 in.)
Culture
United States
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

The Philadelphia-born Haseltine favored images of coastal rocks, painting them on both sides of the Atlantic throughout his career. Best known for his scenes of Maine and Massachusetts shorelines, Haseltine based this painting on volcanic rocks from the uninhabited eastern end of Capri, an island off the southwestern coast of Italy.