Oil painting of a dusty town plaza with a whitewashed church tower, adobe buildings, a wagon, and a rider on a donkey under cloudy skies.

Old Mesilla Plaza, oil painting ca. 1885-1886

A wide, sun-bleached town square under a cloudy sky, with a whitewashed church tower at left and low adobe-style buildings lining a dirt street at right. A man with a horse-drawn wagon and a rider on a donkey cross the open plaza in this oil on canvas.

Artist: Leon Trousset
Date: ca. 1885-1886
Medium: oil on canvas
Source: Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Size: 2999 × 1841 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1891).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum

19th century folk art cityscape oil on canvas painting horse-drawn wagon donkey rider