The image displays an urban landscape from a slightly elevated perspective, featuring a cityscape with a moody atmosphere. The horizon is high, showing architectural structures and rooftops against a misty sky. Distant buildings merge with the surrounding gloom. The painting has loose and expressive brushwork, with soft and smudged strokes creating a hazy quality. The color palette is monochromatic, using shades of black, gray, and white. Closer elements show indistinct forms of buildings and rooftops, adding to the dense scene. Background details are more abstract, blending into a textured sky.
Artwork Details
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- transfer lithograph with added crayon, ink, scraping, and stumping on the stone in black on heavy wove paper
- Dimensions
- 4860 × 3212 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original