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Jungfrau, 1870, Watercolor, Gouache, and graphite on pale blue wove paper. Splendid Mountain Watercolours or Splendid Mountain Sketchbook is a collection of sketches and watercolors by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), executed when he was fourteen years old, and on a summer excursion to Switzerland's Bernese Alps in the Berner Oberland in 1870.
Moran sketched the Grand Teton mountains from a distance in August 1879, and this painting is based on those sketches. It depicts the snow-clad mountains in the distance, catching the Sun below a hazy blue sky with light clouds, with the foreground dominated by dark pine trees around a lake and river.
He studied drawing, ... Mountain Background (1861), Addison Gallery of American Art ... A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Falls) (1862), Metropolitan Museum of ...
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog [a] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [2] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely.
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie is an 1866 landscape oil painting by German-American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) which was inspired by sketches created on an 1863 expedition. Bierstadt traveled to the Colorado Rocky Mountains where he was taken up to the Chicago Lakes beneath Mount Blue Sky .
The Chinese ink painting tradition of shan shui ("mountain-water"), or "pure" landscape, in which the only sign of human life is usually a sage, or a glimpse of his hut, uses sophisticated landscape backgrounds to figure subjects, and landscape art of this period retains a classic and much-imitated status within the Chinese tradition.
Sketch for 'East Cowes Castle, the Regatta Beating to Windward' No. 1 1827 Tate Britain, London: 29.8 x 48.9 Sketch for 'East Cowes Castle, the Regatta Beating to Windward' No. 2 1827 Tate Britain, London: 45.7 x 61 Sketch for 'East Cowes Castle, the Regatta Beating to Windward' No 3 1827 Tate Britain, London: 46.4 x 72.4 A Sail Boat at Rouen ...
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes.