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We look sightly down and across a green meadow in front of us at a grove of tall trees to our left next to a shimmering body of water, before a deep view of distant mountains beneath an ice-blue sky in this horizontal landscape. A few slate-gray boulders and fallen tree trunks line the view along the bottom edge of the composition. To our left, tall, moss-green, leafy trees rise nearly the height of the canvas, shading a winding, dirt path that leads to building with white walls and a gray roof in the distance. A tower standing next to the structure suggests this could be a church. The land…

Pastoral Landscape

Asher Brown Durand (American, 1796 - 1886)

1861 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of The Manoogian Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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