This nearly square, sketchy painting shows the interior of an empty courtyard, created in milky tones of oatmeal brown, ivory, muted brick red, eucalyptus green, and slate blue. We look across a floor patterned with round and octagonal stones. Across from us, a darkened, arched doorway is set into a larger, lighter arched opening. A niche or a window to our right is covered with a lattice. To our left, another arched opening angles toward us and to our left. It opens onto an indistinct space filled with golden light. Lighter strokes of pale mauve pink and warm parchment yellow on the face of…
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Pavement, Cairo

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1891

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 48.3 x 58.4 cm (19 x 23 in.) ; framed: 68.6 x 78.7 x 7 cm (27 x 31 x 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Joseph F. McCrindle
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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