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A Mexican Hacienda, Lake Cuitzeo
Thomas Moran (born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926)
1885
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 15 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (39.4 x 32.4 cm.)
- Culture
- Mexico
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), 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
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Thomas Moran traveled to Cuba and Mexico in 1883, making many sketches of the landscape. In this image, we gaze through an archway of dark trees to a sunny hacienda on the banks of Lake Cuitzeo. In the foreground a lone figure sits in deep shadows by a pool of water. This intimate scene, which emphasizes the beauty and quietness of nature on a small scale, is very different from the dramatic panoramas of mountains and canyons that were Moran’s trademark.
