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From a low vantage point, we look up a steep, rocky mountainside at a towering mountain peak in the distance in this nearly square landscape painting. Painted with tones of cobalt and topaz blue, caramel and clay brown, mauve pink, lavender purple, ivory, and cream white, the rocks and mountain nearly fill this composition against a deep, crystal-blue sky dotted with a few white puffy clouds. Water trickles along the rocky ground into a white waterfall near the lower left corner. Vibrant green moss grows on some of the smaller rocks that form a diagonal line down to the lower right corner.…

Simplon Pass

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1911 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (Bequest of James Parmelee, 1941)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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