Three people gather around the doorway of a small cottage set in a sun-warmed yard in this almost square painting. At the center of the composition, the tan cottage has a faded, peach-tinged thatched roof and a window with an open shutter to the right of the door. The top half of the Dutch door is swung open, and a woman wearing a white cap and blue, low-cut garment leans her forearms along the bottom half from inside the structure. Two men flank the door. One stands to our left, looking at the woman in profile. He wears a straw-colored hat, white shirt, ruby-red vest, and dark pants. To our…
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Cottage Scenery

painter George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811 - 1879)

1845

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 64.8 × 76.2 cm (25 1/2 × 30 in.) ; framed: 81.3 × 92.7 × 7.3 cm (32 × 36 1/2 × 2 7/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund and Gifts of Charles C. Glover, Jr., Orme Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie, 1961)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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