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Sunlight Filtering through Trees along the River Sihl
1792
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor and gouache on wove paper, laid down on board
- Dimensions
- sheet: 44.7 × 53 cm (17 5/8 × 20 7/8 in.) mount: 46 × 53.7 cm (18 1/8 × 21 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2016.41.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Conrad Gessner. Sunlight Filtering through Trees along the River Sihl. Conrad Gessner; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conrad_Gessner,_Sunlight_Filtering_through_Trees_along_the_River_Sihl,_1792,_NGA_206134.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Sunlight Filtering through Trees along the River Sihl — Conrad Gessner. 1792.
Medium: watercolor and gouache on wove paper, laid down on board.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 44.7 × 53 cm (17 5/8 × 20 7/8 in.) mount: 46 × 53.7 cm (18 1/8 × 21 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2016.41.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.