Moonlight bathes a grassy lawn, where a woman walks to a building with columns and a triangular roof in this vertical painting. To our left of center, the building glows white. The rest of the landscape is loosely painted with blended strokes, giving it a soft look and making some details difficult to make out. To our right, the woman has brown hair and wears a long white dress that trails on the shadow-dappled lawn. She approaches the front of the building, which has four steps as wide as the building that lead up to four columns. A form at the base of one of the columns suggests another…
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May Night

painter Willard Leroy Metcalf (American, 1858 - 1925)

1906

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 99.54 × 91.76 cm (39 3/16 × 36 1/8 in.) ; framed: 53 3/8 x 50 1/2 x 2 3/16 in. (135.57 x 128.27 x 5.56 cm)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1907)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed

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