Bar-room Scene

William Sidney Mount, 1835

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Bar-room Scene, 1835. Oil on canvas.

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Oil on canvas · 57.4 × 69.7 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Bar-room Scene
Artist: William Sidney Mount (American, 1807–1868)
Date: 1835
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 57.4 × 69.7 cm (22 5/8 × 27 7/16 in.)
Credit line: The William Owen Goodman and Erna Sawyer Goodman Collection
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1807–1868

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Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.