Blindman’s Buff by Jean Honoré Fragonard https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46115-blindmans-buff
The color palette is dominated by celery and olive green and tawny, soft brown.
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The color palette is dominated by celery and olive green and tawny, soft brown.
This painting, one of two views of Mortlake Terrace painted by Turner, is a view from the house, looking directly west into the luminous glow of the setting sun. Turner established the quiet mood of the late-afternoon scene with two ivy-covered elm trees, whose soft, feathery leaves and curving limbs frame the painting.
Description Painted in golden tones of butter and harvest yellow, tawny brown, and olive
Jan Both was one of the most important Dutch painters of Italianate landscapes. In 1637 or 1638 he joined his older brother Andries in Rome and stayed there until his return to his native city of Utrecht in 1642.
The trees have tall, gnarled, brown trunks with high canopies of sage, olive, and
Louis Le Nain lived in a region to the north of Paris known for its open fields that produced cereals and grain. Although he settled in Paris with his two brothers, who were also painters, he produced a series of rural images that recall the landscape of his youth.
stool and four children stand along the foreground of a landscape with rolling, olive-green
Albert Bierstadt created this scenic view of Lake Lucerne and the Swiss Alps using dozens of sketches he made on-site. Bierstadt, a German immigrant, had returned to his birthplace for training.
An ice-blue stream winds from the lake across the plain while olive-green trees and
In this intimate portrait, a bearded man with piercing eyes gazes to his right, his weathered face brightly illuminated against his dark beret. Bright accents enliven his eyes and help model his forehead and cheek bones, while similar highlights define the folds of his open shirt and articulate the strands of his grey hair.
The background is dark olive green.
The angels wear flowing gowns in sky or topaz blue, olive green, tangerine orange
The short biblical account of the Flight into Egypt (Matt. 2:13–14) was elaborated upon by Early Christian and medieval theologians.
trees have tall, slender trunks speckled with light gray patches and canopies of olive
Jacob van Ruisdael represents the pinnacle of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting. This great artist, the son of a painter and the nephew of Salomon van Ruysdael (see NGA 2007.116.1), began his career in Haarlem but moved to Amsterdam in about 1656.
trees of the forest spring up beyond the sheep, painted with tones of sage, moss, olive
The unusual subject of this painting comes from one of Aesop’s fables. In his Man and the Satyr , he related how a demigod helped a peasant who was lost on a wintry day.
Her dark brown hair is pulled up and back, and she wears an olive-green wrap over