Mountainous Landscape with Washerwomen

Eugène Boudin’s exceptional ability to observe and record the fleeting effects of nature earned him a place as a precursor of the Impressionists. Though in palette and technique he...

Wooded Mountain Landscape with Waterfall and Travellers is a magnificent fantasy landscape in the Flemish tradition, painted in the first half of the 17th century by the Antwerp pa...

Landscape was a leading genre in 17th-century Dutch painting. During that century Dutch artists succeeded in formulating a type of representation that allowed them to depict the wo...

Exhibition text for “Women and art,” 8 March to 6 June 2004 at the Museum of Bohusläns. From a handwritten catalog of Uddevalla - Musei - Kulturhistorian - collections, Konsthistor...

“Have just returned from a tour in search of the picturesque, ” wrote Thomas Cole in his diary on 8 July 1837, “[...] To Mr Durand the scenery was entirely new and I am happy in ha...

Claude Lorraine, whose artistic inspiration derived from the Roman Campagna, can be considered one of the great figures of 17th-century classical landscape painting. He arrived in ...

“The whole landscape, which, seen by a favourable light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects w...