# El Rio de Luz (The River of Light)

- By: Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826 - 1900)
- Date: 1877
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 138.1 x 213.7 cm (54 3/8 x 84 1/8 in.) ; framed: 160.7 x 237.5 x 7.6 cm (63 1/4 x 93 1/2 x 3 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Gift of the Avalon Foundation
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.50299.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/9d96691b-10b2-44c9-8670-a642e0cd9ce2/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)