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In front of a crowd of at least two dozen people, an old man with a long white beard and hair, wearing tattered clothing, points with a crooked finger toward another man in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale, peachy skin except one man with light brown skin at the front of the crowd, to our right. The men in the painting wear waistcoats or jackets, with pants that buckle at the knee over stockings. At the center of the painting, the white hair of the oldest man, Rip van Van Winkle, flies back from his balding head as he looks to our left with bulging eyes. He has a bulb-like…

The Return of Rip Van Winkle

John Quidor (American, 1801 - 1881)

1849 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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