This painting shows a rocky stream flowing through a green wooded area. Trees and rocky brown-and-gray terrain dominate the top of the composition, with the stream winding below around small gray rocks and boulders. A small white waterfall is depicted on the left side, leading into a flat pool of brown and gray water. The color palette is rich and earthy, with deep greens, golden yellows, and reddish-browns coloring almost all of the scene, as well as some lighter patches of white and beige in the water.
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Woodland Stream

painter Paul Huet (French, 1803 - 1869)

c. 1840

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 24.8 x 33.7 cm (9 3/4 x 13 1/4 in.) ; framed: 39.1 x 48.9 x 3.5 cm (15 3/8 x 19 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp
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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