This is a painting of a fox walking towards the left through a landscape with tall grass. The ground is light yellow underneath the fox, with dark brown areas around the edges of the painting. Around the fox there are small shoots of grass in dark shades of brown, green, and yellow. Behind the fox, on the right, the grass is taller. The fox is painted in shades of white, yellow, and orange, with brown stripes across its body and tail. Its ears are up, its dark eyes look to the left, and its long bushy tail hangs down to the ground. In the background are low green hills, and the sky is mostly…
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Long-Tailed Red Fox

painter John Woodhouse Audubon (American, 1812 - 1862)

1848/1854

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 56.2 x 69.3 cm (22 1/8 x 27 5/16 in.) ; framed: 62.6 x 75.7 x 4.1 cm (24 5/8 x 29 13/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of E.J.L. Hallstrom
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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