Jasper Francis Cropsey enjoyed positive response from critics over the course of his long career. In 1867 Henry Tuckerman wrote of Cropsey's work, "Besides a remarkable tact and truth in color and a true sense of the picturesque, a moral interest was frequently imparted to his landscapes by their historical or allegorical significance, in which as in other respects he reminded his countrymen of Cole. . . A critic of much discrimination defines the peculiar charm of one of his pictures as consisting in 'a certain juicy crispness in the foliage, mingled with delicate gray and purple tints.'" (Book of the Artists, New York, 1867, pp. 532-33)

This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work, which is being prepared by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson.