We look sightly down and across a green meadow in front of us at a grove of tall trees to our left next to a shimmering body of water, before a deep view of distant mountains beneath an ice-blue sky in this horizontal landscape. A few slate-gray boulders and fallen tree trunks line the view along the bottom edge of the composition. To our left, tall, moss-green, leafy trees rise nearly the height of the canvas, shading a winding, dirt path that leads to building with white walls and a gray roof in the distance. A tower standing next to the structure suggests this could be a church. The land…
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Pastoral Landscape

Asher Brown Durand (American, 1796 - 1886)

1861

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 99 x 152.5 cm (39 x 60 1/16 in.) ; framed: 132.7 x 184.8 x 12.7 cm (52 1/4 x 72 3/4 x 5 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of The Manoogian Foundation, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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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