# Peaceful Valley, in The American Gilded Age

Alexander Helwig Wyant painted this in about 1872, aged 36. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1872
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 17.7 x 31.1 cm (6 15/16 x 12 1/4 in.) framed: 36.8 x 49.5 x 4.8 cm (14 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 7/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965.10.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Alexander Helwig Wyant](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/alexander-helwig-wyant), American, 1836–1892

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