Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

A wide evening landscape of an aqueduct striding across a river valley toward a hilltop town. Warm sunset light breaks under dark storm clouds, falling on a ruined arched wall at left and on travelers resting by the water in the foreground.

Look closer: A pair of small bathers at the water's edge in the lower right, nearly lost in the shadows.

Artist

Théodore Géricault

Date

1818

Medium

Oil on canvas

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3241 × 3697 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Gift of James A. Moffett 2nd, in memory of George M. Moffett, by exchange, 1989