A person rides a horse away from us on a narrow dirt path curving through a forest dominated by golden yellow trees in this vertical landscape painting. A boulder about twice the width of the path is backlit where it sits just left of the lower center of the canvas. The path begins near the bottom right corner of the painting and curves back and to the right. The horse is white, and the rider wears dark brown pants and a hat, and a lighter brown shirt. Trees towering over the rider to either side of the curve nearly reach the top of the composition. The horizon comes less than a third of the…

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The Forest of Coubron

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796 - 1875)

1872

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 96 x 77.8 cm (37 13/16 x 30 5/8 in.)
Culture: French
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line: Widener Collection
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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