Christmas Eve (Joseph Hoover)
1880 · Chromolithograph (published by Joseph Hoover, Philadelphia) · Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The whole print, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Joseph Hoover (1830–1913)
- Year
- 1880
- Medium
- Chromolithograph (published by Joseph Hoover, Philadelphia)
- Collection
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- Movement
- Victorian
Snow covers the grounds of a large house on a moonlit night, and warm light glows from its tall arched windows. Garlands hang along the balustrade and gate. Guests arrive at the steps: a woman in a red cloak greets a man, a coachman waits with a sleigh and a pair of horses in red blankets, and another woman walks across the snow towards the house. Bare trees rise against a dark green-grey sky, and a second lit house stands at the right. The picture is a chromolithograph, a print made with many colour stones to imitate an oil painting. It was published in Philadelphia by Joseph Hoover, whose firm issued large numbers of such pictures for American homes. The Library of Congress copy is undated. Hoover died in 1913.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A lit house and arriving guests on a snowy, moonlit night, in deep green-grey, warm amber and red. Hang it in an entryway, dining room or over a mantel for the holiday season beside Hassam's Late Afternoon, New York: Winter, in a dark wood frame.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Victorian painting
- Era
- 19th century (1880)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- dining room, hallway or entryway, living room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18, 32×24 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard; 32×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from a scan of the original print, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
