Sunlight pours across golden-tan colored buildings overgrown with verdant plants in this horizontal watercolor. The main two-story building is to our right on the far side of a grassy lawn. A vine creeps across its façade, and a triangular structure projects up over the front of the building, which faces away from us. A high wall extends to or left and then comes toward us. Copper-brown-leaved trees and dark green plants grow on both sides of the wall and over a shallowly peaked roof, which suggests a more substantial structure that has been lost in the growth. Slate-blue hills are glimpsed in the deep distance to the left of the wall.
Artwork Details
- Date
- 1845
- Medium
- watercolor and pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on wove paper laid down on thick, white paper
- Dimensions
- 5378 × 3721 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original