A person and dog trudge through ankle-deep snow to approach a barn and farmhouse under a heavy, lead-gray sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The person has pale-toned skin and wears a brown hat and suit. He carries a sack over one shoulder and a handled basket looped over his other forearm. He walks away from us and to our right so the side of his face is painted with a triangular touch of peach. The dog is mostly brown with some gray spots. The pair approach a break in a stone wall built with light and dark gray boulders. Snow sits in the crooks of branches in barren trees and…
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Winter in the Country

painter George Henry Durrie (American, 1820 - 1863)

c. 1858

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 45.7 x 61.1 cm (18 x 24 1/16 in.) ; framed: 70.2 x 85.4 x 8.6 cm (27 5/8 x 33 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
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
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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