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The round, cavernous entryway of a craggy grotto that opens onto vivid blue water nearly fills this square landscape painting. Close to us, steep, tan-colored and earthy brown rocks rise like cliffs to each side. A wood cross set on a low rocky outcrop lists to one side in the lower left corner of the composition. A few tufts of grass or reedy plants are interspersed along the winding path of the turquoise-colored water inside the grotto, and more spindly plants grow up from or out of the rocky surfaces. The waterway zigzags between us and the body of water just beyond the opening. White…

Vista from a Grotto

David Teniers the Younger (Flemish, 1610 - 1690)

early 1630s · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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