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About a dozen people walk and a few ride horses across a bridge spanning river that cuts through a sandy landscape in this horizontal painting. A few wisps of clouds drift across a vivid blue sky over the horizon, which comes halfway up the composition. The waterway winds from the lower left corner into the distance parallel to the left edge of the painting. A bank of shrubs and two tall palms lean toward the water from the left bank, and brown and cream-white buildings line both sides of the water to the horizon. People sit on the low wall of the bridge in the lower left corner, and a…

View of Medinet El-Fayoum

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824 - 1904)

c. 1868/1870 · oil on wood

National Gallery of Art · Chester Dale Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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