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The ruins of a crenellated, round, stone tower sitting on gently sloping hills are silhouetted against a pale peach-colored sky in this horizontal landscape painting. Two deep green cypress trees lean against the mottled golden brown and rust-colored walls of the tower. To our left of the tower and slightly overlapping it, a high, charcoal-gray wall is also crenelated and in ruins. The land drops gently to the lower right corner. The low grasses in the field are straw and mustard yellow, with occasional patches of moss green. A person, loosely painted, stands on a low rise facing away from…

The Tomb of Caecilia Metella

Léon-François-Antoine Fleury (French, 1804 - 1858)

c. 1830 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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