The Windmill
Colors in this work
Details
- Date
- late 1850s
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- framed: height 0.8 m, width 1.065 m, depth 0.075 m; unframed: height 0.652 m, width 0.923 m
- Origin
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
Art Genome Taxonomy
7 tags
Subject Matter
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Landscapes Visual · 99%
The image clearly depicts an open rural landscape with a windmill as its dominant architectural feature.
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Atmospheric Landscapes Visual · 95%
The broad cloud-filled sky, softened horizon, and blended transitions of light create an atmospheric landscape effect.
Visual Qualities
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Earth Tones Visual · 97%
The painting is dominated by ochre, umber, muted olive, and deep brown tones.
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Dark Colors Visual · 95%
The windmill, vegetation, and foreground are rendered in very dark values against a lighter sky.
Medium and Techniques
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The catalog specifies the medium as oil on fabric.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 99%
The Cleveland Museum of Art dates the work to the late 1850s, within the nineteenth century.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog identifies the artist as French and gives the place of origin as France, 19th century.
Source & rights
Jules Dupré (French, 1811–1889). The Windmill. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 7,002 × 4,973 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available