# Rio de Janeiro Bay, in Martin Johnson Heade

Martin Johnson Heade painted this in 1864, aged 45. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Waves of bottle-green water break over boulders on a sandy shore, while sailboats dot the bay and hills curve around it beneath a sky glowing from butter yellow to mint green.

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## The work

- Date: 1864
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 45.5 x 91.1 cm (17 15/16 x 35 7/8 in.) framed: 70.2 x 115.9 x 12.1 cm (27 5/8 x 45 5/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965.2.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Martin Johnson Heade](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/martin-johnson-heade), 1819–1904

Heade travelled restlessly and worked in many genres, but is best known for three subjects: the salt marshes of New England and New Jersey, with haystacks under changing skies; hummingbirds and orchids, which he studied on journeys to Brazil and Central America; and, in later…

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