Promenade in a Barge

A panoramic wallpaper panel shows elegantly dressed figures in a small boat on calm water, beneath a weeping willow and tall trees. At right, a stair climbs to a classical pavilion with draped curtains and urns, while a white marble bust sits in the foreground beside a fern.

Look closer: A small urn sits on the pedestal at the left edge, near the rocky cliff.

Artist

House of Dufour

Date

ca. 1820

Medium

Woodblock-printed paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

1893 × 1512 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1993