A young man with a peachy, ruddy complexion lies on his stomach in a wooden rowboat on a river, reaching forward to grasp the horn of a stag almost completely submerged in the rippling water with one hand. On the opposite riverbank, gold, rust, and scarlet-red trees span the width of this horizontal painting. The boy’s arms straddle the stern of the boat so one holds the antler with his right hand, closer to us, while the other clutches a rope with a loop at the end. He turns his face, mouth agape and cheeks flushed, over his right shoulder to look to our left, at a dog swimming toward the…
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Hound and Hunter

Winslow Homer (American, 1836 - 1910)

1892

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 71.8 x 122.3 cm (28 1/4 x 48 1/8 in.) ; framed: 102.2 x 151.8 x 10.2 cm (40 1/4 x 59 3/4 x 4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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