A person at the center of this loosely painted horizontal landscape rides a dark horse across a field as a man to the left works the field behind a horse-drawn plow. The field is carpeted with muted and gold-shaded green, and a grove of trees in the right third of the composition are painted in fern, olive, and dark green. A patch of darker green near us and to left of center is dotted with red and yellow to suggest flowers. The men and horses are small in relation to the composition. The people have brown skin and are painted with a few strokes in dark gray and muted green for the man…
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796 - 1875)

1850/1860

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 33.8 x 55.3 cm (13 5/16 x 21 3/4 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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