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Waterfall on Mont-Morency

1864
oil on canvas
18 x 27 7/8 in. (45.7 x 70.8 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Vulture and Its Prey

1844
oil on canvas
27 1/8 x 22 1/4 in. (68.9 x 56.5 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Vesuvius and Pompeii

1870
oil on canvas
10 x 15 5/8 in. (25.4 x 39.7 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Robert S. Duncanson spent a significant amount of time in Italy, and painted several views of Pompeii. Pompeii's dramatic history and the lure of Mount Vesuvius's still violent potential brought many artists to the area in the nineteenth century. This image shows the remains of an amphitheater, with Vesuvius smoking in the background. Duncanson...
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Valley Pasture

1857
oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 48 in. (81.9 x 121.9 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
rms. This might represent the promised land of freedom that escaped slaves in the 1850s hoped to reach by swimming across the Ohio River to the free states of the North.
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Scottish Landscape

1871
oil on canvas
29 5/8 x 50 in. (75.4 x 127 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Robert S. Duncanson made several trips to Scotland, probably inspired by his father's Scottish heritage. He created romantic wilderness views that may have been influenced by the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott. In this piece the warm colors and rich vegetation make a remote scene appear welcoming, and would have appealed to the sentimental...
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Scotch Highlands

ca. 1848-1852
oil on canvas
27 1/4 x 42 1/4 in. (69.2 x 107.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Roses--Fancy Still Life, Still Life with Roses

ca. 1842-1848
oil on paperboard
10 3/4 x 15 1/8 in. (27.3 x 38.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Roses Still Life

ca. 1842-1848
oil on canvas
24 x 19 in. (61.0 x 48.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Romantic Landscape

1871
oil on canvas
7 1/8 x 19 in. (18.1 x 48.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Remembrances of a Scene near Auerbach

ca. 1856
oil on canvas
13 1/2 x 18 3/8 in. (34.3 x 46.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
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