The image depicts a rural landscape with a two-story house seen from a high perspective. The house is on the left, and it has horizontal white paneling, a small brown porch, dark windows with green shades, and a tiled roof in shades of red, blue, and black. There are three tall trees behind the house, one with green leaves, one with yellow leaves, and one with sparse dark green leaves. In the distance on the right, there are flat green fields separated by brown paths, more white farmhouses, and pale blue mountains under the blue sky. Closer to us, at the bottom of the painting, two people, a…
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Farmhouse in Mahantango Valley

American 19th Century

late 19th century

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 75 x 72.1 cm (29 1/2 x 28 3/8 in.) ; framed: 90.1 x 89.2 x 5.5 cm (35 1/2 x 35 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
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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