Tall trunks and the canopies trees sweep to our left in a stiff wind in this horizontal landscape painting. The bottom half of the canvas is packed solid with leafy trees. Several spindly trunks shoot high above the canopy against a sky mottled with a sheet of pale gray clouds. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower left corner, “F. VALLOTTON. 10.”
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The Wind

Félix Vallotton (Swiss, 1865 - 1925)

1910

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 89.2 × 116.2 cm (35 1/8 × 45 3/4 in.) ; framed: 100.9 × 127.6 × 6.35 cm (39 3/4 × 50 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
Swiss
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CMC
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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