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Two ships and two sailboats, all with full sails, float on a gently rippling body of water in front of a pale pastel-shaded sky in this horizontal painting. A rounded rock projects from the water near the center of the painting in the hazy near distance. One ship with two masts to the left of the rock has three people standing on the port side of the deck, closer to us. Between us and the ship, a man wearing a red shirt and a flat-topped brown hat and with two traps on his rowboat travels toward the ship. Three ships cluster to the right of the rock. Four men and seven wooden barrels are…

Becalmed off Halfway Rock

Fitz Henry Lane (American, 1804 - 1865)

1860 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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