The image displays a landscape with a high horizon line, showcasing a grassy plain under a soft sky. Figures on horseback are dispersed across the scene, with fluid brushstrokes depicting movement in the grass and sky. The color palette is mainly earth tones, greens, rust, and ochre, set against a pale blue sky.
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Driving the Pampas for Wild Cattle - Connibo

George Catlin (American, 1796 - 1872)

1854/1869

Medium
oil on card mounted on paperboard
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 46 x 61.5 cm (18 1/8 x 24 3/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Paul Mellon 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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