Outline Sketch of Mountains (verso, from Sketchbook)
1869
gouache
From the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
1869
gouache
From the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
You see sharp mountain peaks drawn in pencil on blue paper, with white chalk highlights on the ridges. This is a quick sketch McEntee made outdoors, probably in the Catskills. The blue paper lets the white gouache—opaque watercolor—pop like sunlight on rock. It’s not polished; it’s a raw note from nature. If you like this, look up the subject mountains, american.
![Village, Mountains, and Lake [Maggiore?] (recto, from sketchbook)](https://pub-3a17a9933ad74fb28aa30fa758592f23.r2.dev/artworks/3cfb09e258099ce7/thumb.webp)
![Cloud Study; Lake [Maggiore?] and Village (verso, from sketchbook)](https://pub-3a17a9933ad74fb28aa30fa758592f23.r2.dev/artworks/1f3f39c3005c9a2a/thumb.webp)
