This painting displays an open safe filled with stacks of banknotes and coins. The safe is gray, while the money inside is in shades of green, red, and tan. The paper currency is in large bills, from $1,000 to $10,000, and the stacks are tied with pink ribbons. On the top shelf of the safe is a stack of large silver coins and smaller bronze coins. Hanging below the coins is a note on yellow paper titled "Semi-annual account" that lists the amounts of several categories: "Receipt", "Expenses", "Profit", "U.S.& B. Notes", and "Gold&Silver". The total amount is "492,392,296.50". The yellow…
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Safe Money

painter Victor Dubreuil (American, born France, 1842 - after 1910)

1898 or later

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76.84 × 63.5 cm (30 1/4 × 25 in.) ; framed: 85.73 × 73.03 × 5.72 cm (33 3/4 × 28 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift from the heirs of George E. Lemon, 1980)
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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