Cottage Scenery

George Caleb Bingham, 1845

Three people gather around the doorway of a small cottage set in a sun-warmed yard in this almost square painting. At the center of the composition, the tan cottage has a faded, peach-tinged thatched roof and a… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: George Caleb Bingham ¹
Date: 1845 ¹
Medium: oil on canvas ¹
Original: 18,732 × 15,877 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund and Gifts of Charles C. Glover, Jr., Orme Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie, 1961)

Object record, National Gallery of Art

Historical context appears here only once it has verified sources. An empty record is better than a wrong one.

Computed from the image

warmhigh contrastmid toneslandscape

Measured from pixels, not historical readings.

Close in palette, light and contrast · computed

The image shows a rugged landscape viewed from a high vantage point. A steep, rocky terrain leads to a flat plateau with ancient stone structures. The horizon is low in the frame, with open land stretching into the…

Pulpit Rock, Echo Canyon, Utah, William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company

In contrast

Similar light, opposite temperature · computed

Related

In contrast