Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Study of a Blasted Tree Trunk and Branches
View through The Met
Black chalk brown wash heightened with yellowish white chalk. Framing line in pen and black ink
Rights: Public Domain
Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift 2009
Title: Study of a Blasted Tree Trunk and Branches
Description:
Black chalk brown wash heightened with yellowish white chalk.
Framing line in pen and black ink.
Related Results
The Virgin of the dry Tree
The Virgin of the dry Tree
This small panel, which was in a private Belgian collection at the beginning of the 20th -century, was attributed by Grete Ring in 1919 to Petrus Christus. The panel’s iconogr...
painting (gouache): ["The Blasted Tree"]
painting (gouache): ["The Blasted Tree"]
The blasted tree stands to the left foreground. Beneath it, two figures are seated and a woman tends a cooking pot which is hanging over a fire. A path leads diagonally from the gr...
Crow and Heron
Crow and Heron
Executed in plain black ink on paper, this painting in vertical hanging scroll format depicts a white heron and black crow perched atop the broken trunk of a tree. The heron faces ...
Untitled (Banyan Trees, Palm Tree, and Altar)
Untitled (Banyan Trees, Palm Tree, and Altar)
In this monochromatic ink drawing, the trunk of a palm tree shoots upward through the mass of branches produced by a neighboring banyan tree. The scene recalls a well-known Bengali...
Bird Trappers (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Baburnama (Memoirs of Emperor Babur)
Bird Trappers (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Baburnama (Memoirs of Emperor Babur)
The verso of the folio depicts a group of bird trappers engaged in various methods of capturing their prey. A figure, wearing saffron turban, brown shirt, and orange trousers stand...
X-radiograph(s) of "Blasted Elm"
X-radiograph(s) of "Blasted Elm"
X-Radiograph Description: X-Radiograph
X-Radiograph Settings: Dupont Cronex NDT-55; 5 ma, 50 kv, 40 sec. (4)
Burroughs Number: 4067
X-Radiograph(s) of:
Artist: Ruisdael,...
Model of a trunk engine
Model of a trunk engine
The trunk engine, invented by the British engineer John Penn, greatly improved steam propulsion for ships. Penn’s use of a ‘trunk’, or cylindrical case, housing a connecting rod, i...
Pair of Screens: Sparrows on a Blossoming Cherry Tree
Pair of Screens: Sparrows on a Blossoming Cherry Tree
Although the two screens that comprise their pair can be viewed as separate compositions, they were intended to be viewed together. The two-panel screen on the right depicts a part...