Art, literature & history
A Windmill against a Cloudy Sky
1845/1850
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- oil paint and black chalk over charcoal on tan paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 46.7 x 36.5 cm (18 3/8 x 14 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.57.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Constant Troyon. A Windmill against a Cloudy Sky. Constant Troyon; 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:Constant_Troyon,_A_Windmill_against_a_Cloudy_Sky,_1845-1850,_NGA_138479.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Windmill against a Cloudy Sky — Constant Troyon. 1845/1850.
Medium: oil paint and black chalk over charcoal on tan paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 46.7 x 36.5 cm (18 3/8 x 14 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.57.1. Andrea Woodner 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.