Child with Rocking Horse
The image shows a young child standing next to a rocking horse. The child is standing upright with one hand resting on the rocking horse's head and the other hand holding a whip. The child has fair skin, blue eyes, and short blonde hair with a small curl at the top. The child wears an orange dress with floral patterns, white lace-trimmed pantaloons, white stockings, and black shoes. The background includes red drapery on the left side and a bright landscape visible through a window, as well as a deep green hue on the right side.
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Details
- Artist
- American 19th Century
- Date
- c. 1850
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 103.2 x 68.6 cm (40 5/8 x 27 in.) framed: 125.1 x 90.8 x 7.3 cm (49 1/4 x 35 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.)
- Department
- CAB
- Holding institution
- National Gallery of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- national-gallery-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Subject Matter
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Individual Portrait Visual · 98%
A single child is the dominant, centrally posed subject, presented frontally and at full length in a portrait-like composition.
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Childhood Both · 99%
The image shows a young child, and the catalog description explicitly identifies the subject as a young child.
Visual Qualities
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Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 98%
Saturated orange, red, teal-green, white, and dark blue-black passages create a strongly vivid color scheme.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Both · 99%
The catalog classifies the work as a painting, and the image visibly presents a painted, vertically oriented portrait scene.
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Oil Painting Metadata · 100%
The catalog records the medium as oil on canvas.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to circa 1850.
Geographic Regions
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American Art Metadata · 90%
The catalog identifies the artist as American 19th Century, supporting a broad American-art classification.
Tableware, Vessels, and Objects
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Toy Both · 100%
A rocking horse occupies a substantial portion of the composition and is explicitly identified in the title and catalog description as a central object.
Source & rights
American 19th Century. Child with Rocking Horse. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
High-resolution sources
- IIIF image service ↗ 4,484 × 6,861 · National Gallery Of Art · Available