Seven light-skinned men stand closely together at the edge of a body of water across from a group of about a dozen indigenous people with brown skin gathered in the near distance in this horizontal painting. To our left, five of the white men wear tall black hats with blue and pink feathers. In shades of royal blue, parchment white, pine green, or brick red, their caped suits have slashes across the chest, shoulders, and upper thighs. Some hold or wear swords, and most have knee-high, olive-green boots. At the back of the group, a hatless, balding man wears a long brown robe with a rosary…
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First Landing of Christopher Columbus

Frederick Kemmelmeyer (American, active 1788/1816)

1800/1805

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 70.1 x 92.6 cm (27 5/8 x 36 7/16 in.) ; framed: 82.6 x 104.8 x 6.4 cm (32 1/2 x 41 1/4 x 2 1/2 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
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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