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People gather under trees next to an expansive river dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The people are tiny in scale in the landscape, and they all have light skin. The softly rippling river takes up the right half of the composition. The water is bottle green closest to us, shifting to celestial blue in the distance. The water blends with the same color blue in the sky along the horizon, which comes halfway up the painting. Rowboats and sailboats line the shore along our left and float into the distance, some with sails tied up and others unfurled. In the lower right…

River Landscape

Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish, 1568 - 1625)

1607 · oil on copper

National Gallery of Art · Patrons' Permanent Fund and Nell and Robert Weidenhammer Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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