material used: canvas / country of origin: United States of America

instance of: painting (5,258) | study (16) | sketch (3) | artwork copy (2) | unfinished creative work (2) | oil painting (2) | painting series (1) | artwork original version (1)

commissioned by: University of Pennsylvania (1) | Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (1) | William Thompson Walters (1) | Woodbury Langdon (1) | John Pratt (1) | Charles Lang Freer (1)

owned by: Birmingham Museum of Art (49) | Carmen Cervera (23) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (23) | Dallas Museum of Art (16) | Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (16) | John Meyer (8) | Harold E. Simon (7) | Arizona State University Art Museum (6) | Phoenix Art Museum (6) | Oliver B. James (6) | John G. Johnson (3) | Robert Lehman (3) | Pauline Allen Gill Foundation (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2) | George Bellows (2) | Louisine Havemeyer (2) | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (2) | John Meyer (2)

movement: Hudson River School (19) | Realism (16) | Orientalism (12) | Volcano School (12) | Impressionism (10) | American Impressionism (8) | Ashcan School (6) | Naïve art (4) | Tonalism (3) | luminism (3) | pop art (2) | realism (2) | Luminism (2) | neoclassicism (1) | Romanticism (1) | Cubism (1) | German Expressionism (1) | scientific realism (1)

genre: landscape art (1,127) | portrait (655) | marine art (147) | religious art (68) | genre art (58) | still life (45) | self-portrait (44) | animal painting (42) | floral painting (27) | architectural view (26) | group portrait (22) | history painting (21) | nude (12) | Orientalism (12) | battle painting (8) | trompe-l'œil (6) | allegory (6) | military art (5)

named after: cathedral (1)

based on: Cinderella (1) | Macbeth (1) | conversion of Paul the Apostle (1) | Lansdowne Portrait (1) | Rape of Belgium (1) | The Ray of Light (1)

artist: George Catlin (515) | Albert Bierstadt (193) | George Inness (126) | John Singer Sargent (120) | Thomas Eakins (94) | Martin Johnson Heade (94) | John Singleton Copley (90) | Gilbert Stuart (87) | Frederic Edwin Church (86) | Edward Mitchell Bannister (83) | Thomas Cole (77) | Winslow Homer (75) | Asher Brown Durand (72) | Jasper Francis Cropsey (64) | Alice Pike Barney (61) | William Morris Hunt (56) | D. Howard Hitchcock (56) | Thomas Moran (51)

part of the series: The Course of Empire (5) | Watson and the Shark (3) | The Voyage of Life (3) | Chocolate Grinder (series) (1) | The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775 (1) | Naked Dave (1)

depicts: tree (904) | man (491) | woman (441) | sky (438) | cloud (411) | mountain (259) | river (184) | portrait (184) | landscape (175) | Indigenous peoples of the United States (173) | hill (149) | house (130) | boat (123) | horse (103) | coast (80) | flower (74) | sea (73) | rock (72)

collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum (1,386) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (758) | Museum of Fine Arts (719) | National Gallery of Art (477) | Art Institute of Chicago (173) | private collection (125) | The Phillips Collection (108) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (94) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (91) | Andrew W. Mellon collection (72) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (68) | Brooklyn Museum (63) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (56) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (55) | Birmingham Museum of Art (53) | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (43) | Corcoran Gallery of Art (34) | Walters Art Museum (33)

location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (1,384) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (758) | Museum of Fine Arts (718) | National Gallery of Art (476) | Art Institute of Chicago (173) | The Phillips Collection (108) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (93) | Minneapolis Institute of Art (91) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (68) | Brooklyn Museum (59) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (56) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (54) | Birmingham Museum of Art (53) | Walters Art Museum (33) | M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (31) | Yale Center for British Art (29) | High Museum of Art (28) | Yale University Art Gallery (26)

part of: The Peaceable Kingdom (3) | Watson and the Shark (1)

exhibition history: Phoenix Art Museum (3) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (3) | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2) | Joshua Johnson: Freeman and early American portrait painter (2) | Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (2) | London (1) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Philadelphia (1) | Baltimore (1) | Brown University (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (1) | National Gallery of Art (1) | Art Institute of Chicago (1) | Panama–Pacific International Exposition (1) | Amon Carter Museum of American Art (1) | National Academy of Design (1) | University of Arizona (1) | Whitney Museum of American Art (1)

main subject: George Washington (20) | flight into Egypt (5) | Abraham Lincoln (3) | crucifixion of Jesus (3) | Virgin Mary (2) | boy (2) | man (2) | John Adams (2) | Annunciation (2) | Alexander Hamilton (2) | Lake George (2) | Annunciation to the shepherds (2) | ascension of Jesus (2) | Jesus Christ (1) | woman (1) | cattle (1) | house (1) | Andes (1)

donated by: Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch (4) | Charles Lang Freer (3) | anonymous (2) | Carl S. Dentzel (2) | Works Progress Administration (1) | John D. Rockefeller III (1) | Pi Beta Phi (1) | J.E.R. Chilton (1) | Robert R. Rosenbaum (1) | Carolann Smurthwaite (1) | James Beattie (1) | Charles F. Olney (1) | Cecilia Drinker Saltonstall (1) | Edward W. C. Arnold (1)

location of final assembly: New York City (3) | Paris (3) | New York (3) | England (2) | California (2) | Brooklyn (2) | Netherlands (1) | Boston (1) | France (1) | Rome (1) | Venice (1) | Maine (1) | Massachusetts (1) | Arizona (1) | Philadelphia (1) | Texas (1) | New Mexico (1) | Munich (1)

published in: Joshua Johnson: Freeman and early American portrait painter (2) | American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815 (2) | Masterpieces of American Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)