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Three light-skinned men, one with his head and knee bandaged, sit and stand around a rusty, free-standing stove in a room with wide plank floors in this horizontal painting. In the center of the room and painting, glowing embers burn in the box-like stove and a long chimney pipe extends up off the back. A glass with amber liquid, a clay-brown mug, and a long, white pipe rest on top of the stove. To our left of the stove, the injured man sits on a broken-backed chair with his feet angled to our right. He leans forward and points at the man sitting across from him with his right hand. In his…

The Tough Story - Scene in a Country Tavern

William Sidney Mount (American, 1807 - 1868)

1837 · oil on wood

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1874)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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