Two horses, one dark brown and one cream white, stand together to our right against a landscape with rolling, sage-green hills and a river or canal in this horizontal painting. Near us, facing our right in profile, the brown horse rests his head across the back of the white horse, who stands with its tail toward us. The horses stand along the ridge of a grassy hill that dips beyond us to a waterway crossing the width of the canvas. Several buildings line the shore closer to us. At least one building has parchment-white walls and a red roof, and another has peanut-brown walls with a darker,…
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Horses in a Meadow

painter Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

1871

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 31.8 x 40 cm (12 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.) ; framed: 47 x 54.9 x 5.1 cm (18 1/2 x 21 5/8 x 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
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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