# Children Playing in a Park

- By: Hugues Merle (French, 1823 - 1881)
- Date: c. 1860
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 32.6 x 40.9 cm (12 13/16 x 16 1/8 in.) ; framed: 45.4 x 53.7 x 5.7 cm (17 7/8 x 21 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
- Culture: French
- Credit line: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52245.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/nga/160418dd-3a76-4a49-9240-f9570931f7e5/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)