From a high vantage point, we look across hills, trees, and a body of water and into the deep distance in this horizontal landscape painting. A shed-like structure with an overhanging roof protecting an image of a woman holding a baby is near the left edge of the composition. In front of the structure, a person wearing a white head covering, red vest, white sleeves, and long blue skirt kneels on the dirt path, and a basket of flowers is near her knees. Two other people, all tiny in scale, stand nearby. One of them wears a brown cape, cassock, and hood, and the other wears a high-crowned hat,…
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Castle Gondolfo, Lake Albano, Italy

Christopher Pearse Cranch (American, 1813 - 1892)

1852

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 92.71 × 138.43 cm (36 1/2 × 54 1/2 in.) ; framed: 123.19 × 168.91 × 12.7 cm (48 1/2 × 66 1/2 × 5 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
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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