From a rocky ledge, we look down into a valley between two humped mountains that run into the distance ahead of us in this horizontal landscape painting. The area closest to us has golden yellow and sage-green grasses on a ledge of ash-gray stone. The land drops away beyond the ledge, into a valley, which is also deep in shadow. The conical tops of a few evergreen trees poke up on the far side of the stone ledge. The flat, grassy area between the mountains is moss and olive green. The mountain to our left curves down as it moves away from us, and the long side facing us is sheer,…
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The Last Valley - Paradise Rocks

painter John La Farge (American, 1835 - 1910)

1867-1868

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 83.2 x 107.4 cm (32 3/4 x 42 5/16 in.) ; framed: 118.1 x 142.6 x 8.9 cm (46 1/2 x 56 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel 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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