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The painting shoes a scene with a horse, captured from a low point of view. The horizon is low, with a broad expanse of gray-blue sky above it and a thin strip of green fields stretching horizontally below it. A horse, painted with broad, expressive brushstrokes, is near the center of the painting, moving across a sandy path towards the left. The horse is white, with a long mane and a short tail, and a dark saddle on its back. In the distance, a small haystack is visible on the left, and there are some swirling, indistinct lines on the right. The brushstrokes in the painting are thick and visible.
National Gallery of Art · Painting
A Plow Horse in a Field
Stanislas Lépine
- Date
- 1870/1874
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 18.9 x 32.9 cm (7 7/16 x 12 15/16 in.) framed: 25.6 x 40.6 x 3.2 cm (10 1/16 x 16 x 1 1/4 in.)
- Classification
- Painting
- Accession number
- 1994.59.8
- Credit line
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
- Time span
- 1851 to 1875
- Department
- CF
Subjects and terms
- painted surface
- French
- mammal
- animal
- French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century. Part II: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
- Horse
- Realist
Provenance
Lucien Lépine, St. Georges du Bois, Charente Maritime. (Robert Schmidt, Paris); sold January 1969 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1994 to the National Gallery of Art.
NGA object ID 89680. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.