This is a landscape painting depicting a body of water surrounded by greenery, with tall green and purple mountains in the background under a sky full of dark pink clouds and a strip of bright blue-green. To the right of center, a person stands in the water, submerged up to their thighs. The person faces away from us. Their skin is painted in shades of light orange and tan, and they have an orange cloth wrapped around their waist. They hold a long, thin spear, and look down at the water. Behind them, on the opposite shore, another indistinct person looks on, standing on the grassy green…
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The Entrance to the Tautira River, Tahiti. Fisherman Spearing a Fish

John La Farge (American, 1835 - 1910)

c. 1895

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 136 x 152.4 cm (53 9/16 x 60 in.) ; framed: 152.4 x 168.3 x 4.4 cm (60 x 66 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Adolph Caspar Miller Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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