Tag: mountain

Mountain Landscape with Bridge (1783-1784)

Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Mountain Landscape with Bridge 1783–1784 Oil on canvas, 113 x 133.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A river winds through forest-green trees and vegetation between rolling hills and mountains extending into the deep distance under a pale,…

Tigre (c.1830)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Tigre (Tiger) c.1830 Watercolor, 14.1 x 25.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

Vue panoramique sur les Alpes (1877)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Vue panoramique sur les Alpes, Les Dents du Midi (Panoramic View of the Alps, Les Dents du Midi) 1877 Oil on fabric, 151.2 x 210.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This late, unfinished painting reveals some of…

Landscape with Travelers (1605)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Landscape with Travelers 1605 Etching, 22.1 x 29 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland A son of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan traveled in Italy in the 1590s and later enjoyed a successful career in Antwerp,…

Les Vignes à Cagnes (1908)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Vignes à Cagnes (The Vineyards at Cagnes) 1908 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 55.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Here, Pierre-Auguste Renoir depicts a woman reading beneath an olive tree on his estate near Cagnes, in the…

La Corniche près de Monaco (1884)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Corniche près de Monaco (La Corniche near Monaco) 1884 Oil on canvas, 75 x 94 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam In Monet’s time La Corniche was a narrow mountain track; nowadays, it is the main road between Nice and…

La baie de Marseille, vue de l’Estaque (c.1885)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La baie de Marseille, vue de l’Estaque (The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L’Estaque) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 80.2 × 100.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In a letter to his friend and teacher Camille Pissarro, Paul…

Kolsåstoppen (1895)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Kolsåstoppen (Mount Kolsaas) 1895 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 100.5 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Mont Kolsaas en Norvège 1895 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris