# Rio de Janeiro Bay, in Antebellum America

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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