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Follow the light of the low sun past the ruined arch and across the aqueduct, then look down at the small figures by the water.
This large canvas, about two and a half meters tall, shows an evening landscape with a ruined arch at left, an aqueduct across a river and buildings on a rocky hill under a stormy sky. Small figures rest and bathe by the water in the foreground. Géricault painted it in 1818, the same year as the print of soldiers returning from Russia in this room.
Oil on canvas · 98 1/2 x 86 1/2 in. (250.2 x 219.7 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Romanticism
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- Museum title
- Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct
- Artist
- Théodore Géricault (French, Rouen 1791–1824 Paris)
- Date
- 1818
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 98 1/2 x 86 1/2 in. (250.2 x 219.7 cm)
- Credit line
- Purchase, Gift of James A. Moffett 2nd, in memory of George M. Moffett, by exchange, 1989
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.