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Loading Hay, c. 1886-87. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 59.5 × 97 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Loading Hay
- Artist
- Mihály Munkácsy (Hungarian, 1844-1900)
- Date
- c. 1886-87
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 59.5 × 97 cm (23 1/2 × 38 in.); Framed: 91.5 × 129.6 × 12.7 cm (36 × 51 × 5 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1844–1900
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.

