This painting shows a woodland scene with tall trees surrounding a small, still pond. The trees and grassy ground are painted in shades of olive-green, rusty orange, yellow ochre, and dark brown. The trunks of some of the trees are white or light gray, dappled with patches of sunlight. The small pond reflects the green leaves and the blue sky that is visible through a break in the trees at the center of the painting. The sky is covered with soft, white clouds. Upon closer inspection, a small shape that may be a person becomes visible near the center of the painting, next to a tall tree. The…
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The Frog Pond

painter Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (French, 1807 - 1876)

1876

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 78.74 × 104.14 cm (31 × 41 in.) ; framed: 110.49 × 135.89 × 12.7 cm (43 1/2 × 53 1/2 × 5 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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