A waterway flanked by low banks curves away from us in front of a band of rolling hills in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. The water is created with wide strokes of white, ice blue, or the muted jewel tones of the hills. The riverbank in the lower right corner is also painted with wide strokes but in peanut brown, soft green, and petal pink. Tree trunks along the far bank have ghostly canopies that blend into the hills, which are painted with vertical strokes of celestial blue, amber brown, pale green, and rose pink. In the top third of the composition, a few white clouds trundle…
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Brittany Landscape

painter Paul Gauguin (French, 1848 - 1903)

1888

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 71.1 x 89.5 cm (28 x 35 1/4 in.) ; framed: 91.4 x 115.6 cm (36 x 45 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
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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