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Follow the leaf shadows across the white pillars, then walk down the path past the fallen oranges to the reading man.
Fearnley painted this small picture in oil on paper around 1834. Sunlight falls through orange trees onto white pillars and a long path, where a man reads as he walks. The painting stayed with Fearnley’s family in Norway, passing to his son, until the museum’s Old Masters Society bought it for the Art Institute in 2002.
Oil on paper, mounted on canvas · 28 × 37 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Pergola with Oranges
- Artist
- Thomas Fearnley (Norwegian, 1802–1842)
- Date
- c. 1834
- Medium
- Oil on paper, mounted on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28 × 37 cm (11 × 14 1/2 in.); Framed: 47.7 × 54.7 cm (18 3/4 × 21 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of The Old Masters Society
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1802–1842
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.