Two pale-skinned men in a marshy landscape look at a wide-eyed dog, which holds a dead duck in its mouth in this horizontal landscape painting. One man kneels facing our left in profile and holds one hand out toward the dog. The man has short, dark hair and a dark beard with no mustache. He wears a beige-colored jacket trimmed with red, dark brown pants, and knee-high brown boots. He holds a rifle by its barrel with his other hand so the stock rests on the ground in the lower right corner of the painting. Four dead ducks lie by his foot, where hobnails lining on the sole and heel gleam. The…
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The Retrieve

painter William Tylee Ranney (American, 1813 - 1857)

1850

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76.5 × 102.6 cm (30 1/8 × 40 3/8 in.) ; framed: 94 × 119.7 × 7.6 cm (37 × 47 1/8 × 3 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran, 1869)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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