Oil paintings Collection

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High Point: Shandaken Mountains 1853 Asher Brown Durand American This work, first shown at the National Academy of Design's annual exhibition in New York City in 1853

Landscape near Paris A 5210305 Painting; oil on canvas; overall: 50.2 x 60 cm (19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in.) framed: 70.5 x 81.3 cm (27 3/4 x 32 in.);

The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten) 1896 Ferdinand Hodler Swiss In the lower, terrestrial portion of this composition, the shepherd kneels in an Alpine landscape, while in the upper

Saint Sebastian Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni) Italian The picture was purchased as a work of Andrea del Castagno

A River Glimpse ca. 1843-50 Thomas Doughty American A native of Philadelphia, Doughty represents a link between the eighteenth-century pastoral style of landscape painting first imported from England

Christ's Descent into Hell Follower of Hieronymus Bosch Bosch's fiery hell scenes were enormously popular
Christ's Descent into Hell Follower of Hieronymus Bosch Bosch's fiery hell scenes were enormously popular throughout Europe in the sixteenth century

Windmill and Lock (Liber Studiorum, part VI, plate 27) June 1, 1811 Designed and etched by Joseph Mallord William Turner British Turner distilled his ideas about landscape In "Liber

A Brazilian Landscape 1650 Frans Post Dutch From 1630 to 1654, the Dutch Republic maintained a colony in the north of Brazil

Portrait of a Horseman James Seymour British The crisp, taut handling is typical of Seymour's sporting pictures
Portrait of a Horseman James Seymour British The crisp, taut handling is typical of Seymour's sporting pictures. Although the sitter is unidentified, the landscape shows the outskirts of London

Autumn Oaks ca. 1878 George Inness American The composition of this picture is splendidly orchestrated, with a striking effect of unity and emphasis that did not exist in Inness's early works

A River Landscape with Storks 1864 Charles-Francois Daubigny French The site of this river landscape has not yet been identified

The River ca. 1864 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes French In this painting and Cider (on view at left), Puvis developed his conception for a mural honoring the French territory of Picardy

Landscape 1885-95 Ralph Albert Blakelock "Landscape" is typical of the large-scale woodland scenes that Blakelock painted before his confinement to a mental institution in 1899

Autumn Meadows 1869 George Inness American By the start of the Civil War, Inness's paintings began to show distinctive influences of the Barbizon school of French landscape and genre painting

Arcadian Landscape 1820-42 George Barret, the younger British A founding member of the Old Society of Painters in Water-Colours in 1805 and the author of "The Theory

Don Quixote and the Dead Mule after 1864 Honore Daumier French This work, one of many versions of the subject painted by Daumier, illustrates a passage from Don Quixote

The Belated Party on Mansfield Mountain 1858 Jerome B. Thompson Thompson earned a reputation for combining the breadth of Hudson River School landscape painting with the anecdotal appeal of

Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Jan Brueghel the Younger Flemish This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the "hell landscapes" of Jan Brueghel the Elder which in turn

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak 1863 Albert Bierstadt American This
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak 1863 Albert Bierstadt American This and other popular canvases by the German-born Albert Bierstadt shaped the visual identity of the American West in the United

Near Newport 1869 Newport. In this late work, John Frederick Kensett portrayed the Rhode Island coast with spare, yet meticulous forms suffused with light and quietude

The Ford possibly 1636 Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee) French This picture is accurately recorded in Claude's Liber Veritatis

Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1472-75 Hans Memling Netherlandish One of the most sought-after Netherlandish portrait painters of his time

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639-1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638-1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman ca

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt ca. 1650 Aelbert Cuyp Dutch Cuyp never went to Italy, but he emulated Dutch Italianate painters who had been there, above all Jan Both (ca. 1615/18-1652)

German Landscape with View towards a Broad Valley ca. 1829-30 Fritz Petzholdt Danish Of all the followers of Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853)

Landscape with Cattle at Limousin 1837 Jules Dupre French Unlike many of the Barbizon painters who traveled to Italy or throughout France for practical training

The Artist's Garden at Saint-Clair 1904-5 Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix)
The Artist's Garden at Saint-Clair 1904-5 Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix) French The art of Henri-Edmond Cross belongs to the later years of Neo-Impressionism

Italian Landscape ca. 1825-28 Camille Corot French At the age of twenty-nine, three years after choosing to become a painter, Corot left Paris for his first Italian sojourn (1825-28)

Solitude 1818 United States. Joshua Shaw was one of the earliest landscape painters to work in America, practicing in Baltimore and Philadelphia upon emigrating from England in 1817

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille ca. 1485-95 Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) Italian This exquisite and enigmatic portrait and its pendant (1975.1.86)

A Brook in the Forest ca. 1868-77 Gustave Courbet French This landscape is similar to a painting dated 1868, Roe Deer at a Stream (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas)

The Ridotto Pubblico at Palazzo Dandolo ca. 1765-68 Francesco Guardi Italian While Guardi was known for his landscapes and imaginary lagoon views

A Woodland Road with Travelers 1607 Jan Brueghel the Elder Netherlandish Jan, who was born shortly before the death of his famous father, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Fishing Boats off an Estuary 1633 Netherlands. With its low horizon line, monochrome palette, and direct paint handling, this intimate panel is characteristic of the river landscapes of Jan van

Landscape on a River 1863 Charles-Francois Daubigny French This study depicts Valmondois, a village on the Oise River not far from Daubigny's home in Auvers

Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray 1921 Netherlands. Although Piet Mondrianis abstractions may seem far removed from nature, his basic vision was rooted in landscape

Portrait of a Gentleman 1500-1510 Italy. Ridolfo Ghirlandaio transformed the large workshop he inherited from his famous, fresco-painter father, Domenico

Coming Squall (Nahant Beach with a Summer Shower) Made 1835 United States. As the first American artist to identify himself as a landscape painter

Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket 1876 Nantucket Island. One of several genre paintings in Eastman Johnsonis oeuvre that takes its nostalgic theme from rural Nantucket, Husking Bee

Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap 1765-1768 England. Joseph Wright, a leading artist of the eighteenth century, spent most of his life in the central Midlands town of Derby

Polycrates Crucifixion 1663-1665 Italy. Salvator Rosa developed a kind of dramatic landscape in which nature is presented as wild, dangerous, and filled with striking effects of light, broken trees

Landscape with Saint John on Patmos 1640 France. Although French by birth and training, Nicolas Poussin spent most of his career in Rome, immersed in the study of ancient art

A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River 1640-1648 Dordrecht. In this picture, Aelbert Cuyp experimented with the depiction of dramatic atmospheric effects

The Old Mill 1849 United States. George Inness began painting landscapes during a period in which the public preferred depictions of the untamed American wilderness; throughout his career, however

Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great 1796 France. Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, a leading landscape artist in late-18th-century France

Polycrates and the Fisherman 1663-1665 Italy. Salvator Rosa developed a kind of dramatic landscape in which nature is presented as wild, dangerous, and filled with striking effects of light

Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley 1887 United States. George Cope spent most of his life in West Chester, Pennsylvania where he specialized in local landscapes and still-life paintings

Leper House at Cleves 1650-1651 Netherlands. Five drawings (1961. 378-1961)
Leper House at Cleves 1650-1651 Netherlands. Five drawings (1961.378-1961.382) were once bound in a small sketchbook of approximately 200 pages

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