# View of a Lake

- By: Thomas Doughty (American, 1793–1856)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.574)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.574/1963.574_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.