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Watercolor of a person in a rowboat netting a fish on dark water, with a wooded shore behind and a rod held upright.

Netting the Fish

A figure in a dark shirt and cap sits in a rowboat on rippling dark water, holding a fishing rod upright in one hand and a long-handled net extended toward a pale fish at the left. The loose, layered washes of gray and black suggest a shadowy wooded shore, and the boat's reflection stretches across the water.

Artist
Winslow Homer
Date
1889
Medium
Transparent watercolor, heightened with opaque white watercolor, with rewetting, blotting, and scraping, over graphite, on moderately thick,
Source
Art Institute of Chicago
Size
1686 × 1183 px
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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1889).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection

Español: Pescando con red

Una figura con camisa oscura y gorra está sentada en un bote de remos sobre agua oscura y ondulante, sosteniendo una caña de pescar vertical con una mano y una red de mango largo extendida hacia un pez pálido a la izquierda. Las aguadas grises y negras, superpuestas y sueltas, sugieren una orilla boscosa en sombra, y el reflejo del bote se extiende sobre el agua.

Português: Pescando com rede

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