We look across the ruins of a white stone and brick building to a second set of ruins, now of gray stone against a butter-yellow sky in this horizontal landscape painting. Blocks and shards in tan, ivory and parchment white, pale orange, and light yellow are heaped along the bottom edge of the composition. The partially standing wall on the far side supports a few curved tiles, presumably from the previous roof. Long, vivid-green grass grows on both sides of this wall. On a low hill beyond the first ruins, partial arches and fragments of walls rise from a mound of gray rubble. Black lines…
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The Church of Souain

Félix Vallotton (Swiss, 1865 - 1925)

1917

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 96 x 130 cm (37 13/16 x 51 3/16 in.) ; framed: 120 x 154.3 x 6.3 cm (47 1/4 x 60 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CMC
Credit line
Chester Dale Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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