Approximately two dozen people gather around a man standing with his mouth wide open and holding up two objects in a scarlet-red structure on a horse-drawn cart in this horizontal painting. The people appear to all have pale skin and most are men. Near the center of the composition, the man in the cart wears a white robe over a black, high-collared garment and a tall charcoal-gray hat. A hatch on the red structure appears to be open, and he holds up what might be books or pamphlets. A ginger-brown horse stands behind him with its head bowed. In the crowd, the men wear black, brown, gray,…
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Muster Day

painter Charles Henry Granger (American, 1812 - 1893)

1843 or after

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 55.9 x 83.9 cm (22 x 33 1/16 in.) ; framed: 68.3 x 97.2 x 8.6 cm (26 7/8 x 38 1/4 x 3 3/8 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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