We look across a waterlogged path at a line of rust-red and bronze-brown trees that nearly span the width of this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted, which creates a blurred look. The land closest to us is in shadow and many details are difficult to make out, but pockets of bright, ice blue suggest water reflecting the pale sky above. The trees across from us have thin, spindly trunks and billowing dark red and brown canopies. A few swipes of brown, crimson red, and white suggest a person, perhaps on horseback, and perhaps a second person, a child, on the path under…

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After the Rain

painter Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812 - 1867)

c. 1850

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 78.74 × 146.05 cm (31 × 57 1/2 in.) ; framed: 96.52 × 162.88 × 9.21 cm (38 × 64 1/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
Culture: French
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line: Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
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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