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Golden Twilight in Louisiana, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Giroux, Charles ca. 1828-d. after 1885  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Culture:
African American  Search this
Type:
Paintings
Date:
Ca. 1860
Notes:
Delehanty, Randolph, "Art in the American South: works from the Ogden Collection," Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996, no. 3.
Summary:
Twilight landscape with a red-shirted man walking with a fishing pole over his shoulder along a fence toward a cabin at left. At right, a woman stands on the edge of the bayou, and a boy runs toward her. Beyond her, a line of white ducks walk out of the water and onto the grass, near a grouping of cypress trees. The sun almost set, there are heavy shadows throughout the scene.
Topic:
Landscape--Time--Twilight  Search this
Landscape--Louisiana  Search this
Architecture exterior--Domestic--House  Search this
Figure group  Search this
Ethnic  Search this
Landscape--River  Search this
Landscape--Tree--Cypress Tree  Search this
Animal--Bird--Duck  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68050003
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_381268