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Soft green hills carpeted with plants sweep away from us in the bottom third of this horizontal painting on paper. A few terracotta-red roofs the upper expanses of tan-colored walls are nestled into the trees along the bottom edge of the paper. A few more structures with cream-white walls are tucked among trees in the distance before grassy hills surge up along the horizon. A few clouds drift across the hazy, pale blue sky above. The edges of the paper are visible especially along the top and bottom edges.

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painter Simon Denis (Belgian, 1755 - 1812)

c. 1806

Medium: oil on paper on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 31.2 x 41.8 cm (12 5/16 x 16 7/16 in.) ; framed: 40.3 x 51.6 x 5.6 cm (15 7/8 x 20 5/16 x 2 3/16 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: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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