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Cows in a Pond at Sunset, 1860. Oil on canvas.
Oil on canvas · 19.1 × 35.9 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Cows in a Pond at Sunset
- Artist
- Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823–1880)
- Date
- 1860
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 19.1 × 35.9 cm (7 1/2 × 14 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1823–1880
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.