Nocturnal landscape painting with lush trees and a large patch of sky with visible brushstrokes. Multiple small, seated figures line the foreground.
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Landscape with Figures

Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807–1876)

c. 1870

Medium
Oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
26 × 34.9 cm (10 1/4 × 13 3/4 in.); Framed: 52.1 × 61 × 9.6 cm (20 1/2 × 24 × 3 3/4 in.)
Culture
France
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line
Henry Field Memorial Collection
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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