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The Pond (La Mare), 1855. Oil on wood.
Oil on wood · 13 1/2 × 20 3/8 in. (34.3 × 51.8 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- The Pond (La Mare)
- Artist
- Théodore Rousseau (French, Paris 1812–1867 Barbizon)
- Date
- 1855
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 13 1/2 × 20 3/8 in. (34.3 × 51.8 cm) Framed: 23 1/2 × 29 3/4 in. (59.7 × 75.6 cm)
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1812–1867
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.