Wright’s artistic interests varied widely, ranging from portraiture and scientific topics in his early „candlelight“ period to popular subjects, romantic history, literature, and landscapes in later years. This painting dates from the end of Wright’s career.
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Best known for his large-scale, dramatic Alpine scenes that depict nature at its most sublime, Alexandre Calame was considered the leading Swiss landscape painter of the 19th century. Born in Vevey, Switzerland, on the banks of Lake Geneva, in 1810, Calame was deeply committed to his native landscape.
A rocky, slate-gray mountain brushed with lime-green trees that rises along the left
Beyond her, rocky mountains in ice blue and pale lilac purple span the horizon, which
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Schmidt-Rottluff, unidentified, unidentified, A Road with a Castle and Houses in Rocky
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· oil on canvas · Accession ID 1970.17.121 Artwork Thomas Gainsborough, A Rocky
eight hundred thousand square miles of land from the Mississippi River west to the Rocky
shimmering, aquamarine-blue body of water to our left and towns peppered along taller mountains
Far behind him, a grassy hill leads up to steep, rocky outcroppings, with those to
Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century , pages 81-87, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
The distant landscape has sage-green hills, dark green trees, and rocky mountains
