Two pale-skinned horsemen and a pack of ten dogs race across a brown ridge overlooking a river in this long, horizontal painting. The horsemen turn to face us as they and the dogs chase an unidentifiable brown animal from right to left. The front rider wears a peacock-blue coat and black hat over gray hair, while the following rider wears a pewter-gray coat and darker hat over white hair. Most of the dogs have white coats dappled with tan or black spots and one dog is chocolate brown. A man walks along the ridge beyond the dogs and two more men further to the left are shown from the waist up…
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Hunting Scene with a Harbor

painter American 18th Century

18th century

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 49.2 x 140.9 cm (19 3/8 x 55 1/2 in.) ; framed: 56.8 x 148.6 x 2.9 cm (22 3/8 x 58 1/2 x 1 1/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce 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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