This painting shows a grassy, hilly landscape with trees around the edge and a wide river in the distance, dotted with small sailing ships. In the center of the painting is a stately white mansion on top of a green hill. To the right of the mansion, two couples walk along the grass by a white fence. Closer to us, in the bottom left corner, another couple walks arm in arm. The woman wears a long pink jacket over a white dress with a pink hat, and the man wears a dark blue coat over a yellow vest, with blue shorts over white stockings and a black hat on his head. Behind them, the wide river…
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Mount Vernon

George Ropes (American, 1788 - 1819)

1806

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 94 x 134.6 cm (37 x 53 in.) ; framed: 109.8 x 151.1 x 4.4 cm (43 1/4 x 59 1/2 x 1 3/4 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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