A leafless, ash-white tree trunk has fallen from a broken stump into the wide V of a neighboring tree at the edge of a body of water near a verdant forest in this horizontal landscape painting. The fallen trunk creates a diagonal from near the lower left corner to the upper right. As it fell, it sheared off a substantial branch from a neighboring tree with a dark trunk. The bark where the damaged branch has pulled away is honey-orange, the same color as the leaves at the canopy, which has been pinned under the fallen trunk. Trees, vines, and other vegetation fill the space around and beyond…
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Hunting in the Pontine Marshes

Horace Vernet (French, 1789 - 1863)

1833

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 100 × 137 cm (39 3/8 × 53 15/16 in.) ; framed: 136.53 × 173.36 × 16.51 cm (53 3/4 × 68 1/4 × 6 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Fund
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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