View of Santiago de Cuba
This painting shows a landscape with a village seen from above. The view includes red rooftops and a white church with dome-shaped structures. In the background, there are distant mountains in shades of purple, blue, and red. There are dark green trees on the left, in front of what looks like a pale body of water. Closest to us is a strip of green that suggests a hilltop. The sky above is cloudy, with shades of gray and cream. The brushstrokes in the painting are thick and fluid.
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Details
- Artist
- Winslow Homer
- Date
- 1885
- Dimensions
- sheet: 27.3 × 50.5 cm (10 3/4 × 19 7/8 in.)
- Department
- CG-W
- Holding institution
- National Gallery of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- national-gallery-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Bequest of Julia B. Engel
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Cityscapes and City Scenes Both · 99%
The title identifies Santiago de Cuba, and the image visibly depicts a dense settlement viewed across rooftops and architectural structures.
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Landscapes Both · 99%
The museum describes the work as a landscape with a village seen from above, and the image visibly includes vegetation, mountains, sky, and a built middle ground.
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Atmospheric Landscapes Visual · 95%
Softened mountain contours, pale translucent washes, and atmospheric transitions across the horizon give the depicted landscape a strongly atmospheric character.
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Haze Visual · 92%
The distant mountains and parts of the settlement are visibly softened and partially veiled by atmospheric effects.
Visual Qualities
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Earth Tones Visual · 94%
Muted gray, ocher, dusty red, pale cream, green, and blue-violet passages dominate the image, creating an overall earth-toned palette.
Medium and Techniques
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Drawing Metadata · 100%
The museum classification is drawing, and the recorded medium includes watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite.
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Watercolor Metadata · 100%
The recorded medium is watercolor and pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper.
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Work on Paper Metadata · 100%
The support is explicitly identified as wove paper.
Time Periods
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19th Century Art Metadata · 100%
The museum dates the work to 1885.
Geographic Regions
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Art of Latin America and the Caribbean Both · 93%
The title locates the depicted scene in Cuba, and the image shows a Caribbean urban landscape with tropical vegetation, low-rise buildings, and distant mountains.
Source & rights
Winslow Homer. View of Santiago de Cuba. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
High-resolution sources
- IIIF image service ↗ 7,582 × 4,164 · National Gallery Of Art · Available