From a high vantage point, we look across a snow-covered expanse at the long side of a pale, parchment-colored building with a town beyond in this horizontal landscape view. The scene is painted loosely and mostly in tones of icy blue, cream white, golden tan, and brown. Closest to us but far below, a hedge of moss-green treetops lines the sun-drenched, ivory-white field. The field slopes up to our left and a path, between two rows of cinnamon-brown trees, leads from the bottom center of the painting to the building. Four stories of mostly rectangular windows pierce the wall of the building…
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Santa Trinità dei Monti in the Snow

painter André Giroux (French, 1801 - 1879)

1825/1830

Medium
oil on paper on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 22 x 30 cm (8 11/16 x 11 13/16 in.) ; framed: 34.6 x 42.1 x 3.8 cm (13 5/8 x 16 9/16 x 1 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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