View of a Lake
Thomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856)
c. 1830s
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Framed: 53.3 x 69.6 x 7.6 cm (21 x 27 3/8 x 3 in.); Unframed: 38.5 x 55 cm (15 3/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- United States
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Largely a self-taught artist, Thomas Doughty often painted landscapes that include a body of water. In this example, the artist inserted figures of two hunters, accompanied by a dog, at the edge of the lake in the middle of the composition. Humankind is also present in the form of distant sailboats dotting the lake's surface.
