This painting shows ancient ruins made of reddish-brown stone. In front of these dilapidated walls are lines of tan and gray columns and free-standing arches. The brown ground is littered with cream-colored stones. In the background, there are rolling gray hills and distant mountains under a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.
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The Forum at Pompeii

painter Achille-Etna Michallon (French, 1796 - 1822)

1819

Medium
oil on paper
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 16 × 22 cm (6 5/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Gift of the Matthiesen Gallery and John Lishawa Ltd. in memory of E. A. Carmean Jr. (1945–2019) and Philip Conisbee (1946–2008), both curators at the National Gallery of Art
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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