Classical landscape with festive group of twelve people in left foreground including a woman with yellowish dress playing on a tambourine and man dancing. Several oxen at right. Distant background castle and mountain scenery. It is copy of "The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca" by Claude Lorraine. The original hangs in the National Gallery in London.
oil paintings (visual works)
landscapes (representations)
paintings (visual works)
oil paint (paint)
canvas
castles (fortifications)
dance
mountains
figure- and animal-derived motifs
people (agents)
recreation
Oil on Canvas
Landscape
People
Castle
Mountain
Recreation
Dance
Painting
Signed: ""M Corne pinxit--1805""
Cornè, Michele Felice, 1752-1845 (Painter)
Reproduction of Lorraine, Claude, 1600-1682 (Painter)
USA; Italy
41 1/2 x 65 3/4 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Sumner Appleton Weld
1964.412
Massachusetts (United States)
Rhode Island (United States)
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