Prisoners from the Front

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Prisoners from the Front, 1866. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 24 x 38in. (61 x 96.5cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Museum title: Prisoners from the Front
Artist: Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine)
Date: 1866
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 24 x 38in. (61 x 96.5cm) Framed: 36 1/2 × 50 5/8 × 4 1/2 in. (92.7 × 128.6 × 11.4 cm)
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Frank B. Porter, 1922
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1836–1910

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.