A stone bridge with turrets at each end spans a placid river in this horizontal landscape painting. The bridge takes up the right half of the composition, moving from the right edge of the canvas back and to our left. The horizon line comes about a quarter of the way up the painting so much of the tan-colored bridge is nearly silhouetted against the sky. The sun, low in the sky to our right, angles sharply through the four large stone arches of the bridge. The sky glows with golden light along the right side of the composition, and deepens to pale and then aquamarine blue to our left.…
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The Tiber River with the Ponte Molle at Sunset

Jan Asselijn (Dutch, c. 1610 - 1652)

c. 1650

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 41.2 × 54 cm (16 1/4 × 21 1/4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Florian Carr Fund, New Century Fund, and Nell and Robert Weidenhammer 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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