Roadside Cottage
This painting depicts a white house in a lush green setting. The house has dark windows and a red chimney, partially obscured by trees that cast dappled shadows on the house's facade. The front door appears to be open. A light brown path runs parallel to the house at the bottom of the image, and small gray steps lead up the grass towards the house. The color palette includes vibrant greens for the foliage and a light blue for the sky behind the house. The brushstrokes are loose and impressionistic, creating a soft and textured appearance in the trees, grass, and building.
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Details
- Artist
- Dennis Miller Bunker
- Date
- 1889
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 63.7 x 76.2 cm (25 1/16 x 30 in.) framed: 97.16 × 106.05 × 4.45 cm (38 1/4 × 41 3/4 × 1 3/4 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 Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz
Art Genome Taxonomy
7 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Both · 99%
The image shows a cottage, trees, grass, sky, path, and roadside, while the catalog describes a white house in a lush green setting.
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Light as Subject Visual · 86%
Contrasting patches of sunlight and cool shadow are prominent on the cottage facade, roof, grass, and surrounding trees.
Styles and Movements
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Impressionism Both · 80%
The catalog characterizes the brushwork as impressionistic, and the image supports that characterization through broken color, loose handling, and attention to dappled outdoor light.
Visual Qualities
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Bright and Vivid Colors Both · 89%
The image uses vivid greens and blues with warm reddish-orange roof and chimney accents; the catalog also notes vibrant greens and a light blue sky.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 100%
The National Gallery of Art catalogs the work as oil on canvas.
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Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Both · 96%
The catalog describes the brushstrokes as loose and impressionistic, and the image visibly uses broad, broken, textured marks across the foliage, cottage, road, and grass.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 100%
The catalog dates the work to 1889, placing it in the nineteenth century.
Source & rights
Dennis Miller Bunker. Roadside Cottage. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
High-resolution sources
- IIIF image service ↗ 14,748 × 12,394 · National Gallery Of Art · Available