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In a verdant green landscape, a stone castle sits on a tree-lined hill in the distance in front of a high, craggy mountain peak while eighteen armored knights ride toward us along a bridge and path in this horizontal painting. The people whose faces we can see have pale skin. The knights are small in scale within the vast landscape, and they all hold long spears. Their procession is led by a knight on a white horse, which wears a gold bridle and lattice-like blanket. That knight has a ruby-red cloak over his armor, and his helmet has a red feathered plume. The other knights wear cloaks in…

The Departure

Thomas Cole (American, 1801 - 1848)

1837 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran, 1869)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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