# A Mexican Hacienda, Lake Cuitzeo

- By: Thomas Moran (born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926)
- Date: 1885
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 15 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (39.4 x 32.4 cm.)
- Culture: Mexico
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=17847)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/7681520d8ab040ae9d4fc54ca2b3cffc.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.