Three cows drink in a placid body of water in front of a landscape dim with golden sunset light in this horizontal painting. The water creates white eddies around a few rocks as it travels from the lower left corner of the canvas, across the foreground, and off to the right. In the bottom right quadrant of the composition, one cow is white, and another dark brown. The third, tawny brown cow flicks her tail as she dips her head to the water. Tall groves of trees on the far side of the water fill most of the right half of the composition. To the left, a path curves from the waterside back into…
Gallery mode Full size at the museum

Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.

A Landscape after Sunset

painter Washington Allston (American, 1779 - 1843)

c. 1819

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 45.4 × 64.14 cm (17 7/8 × 25 1/4 in.) ; framed: 60.01 × 78.11 × 6.99 cm (23 5/8 × 30 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund, Gallery Fund, and gifts of Orme Wilson, George E. Hamilton, Jr., and R. M. Kauffmann, 1963)
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

View at the National Gallery of Art