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La Barriere du Sous-Bois (The Swinging Gate), (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Bingham, William  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Musee du Quebec Parc des Champs-de-Bataille Quebec Quebec Canada G1R 5H3 Accession Number: 80.05
Date:
1858
Notes:
Musee du Quebec, 1993.
Summary:
Country landscape depicting children playing on a swinging gate made of slender logs, with one boy pushing the gate open, one boy seated on the top rung of the gate, and a boy and a girl standing on the rungs below. To the left a young girl has fallen on the ground. Beyond the gate, a road leads back through a woods with another gate in the distance.
Topic:
Landscape--Road  Search this
Children  Search this
Architecture exterior--Detail--Fence  Search this
Control number:
IAP 67800005
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_367547