
View of La Cava
Lanoüe, Félix-Hippolyte · French
c. 1840
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Period
- 1826 to 1850
- Image size
- 9174 × 10789px
Description
The painting depicts a landscape with rocky outcrops, trees, and distant mountains. A rocky brown hill that takes up the lower third of the image, and at the top there are white buildings with brown roofs. These buildings are surrounded by green trees, and on the other side of the hill we can see more dense trees and other structures. Above the distant mountains is a blue sky filled with a few white clouds.
Rights & Source
Open access image from the National Gallery of Art, released under its open access program. Metadata via the NGA Open Data Program (CC0).