diffused by gentle clouds that spread across blue skies, quietly floods the gently rolling
ghostly white, walk along the path where it curves into the deep distance between rolling
downward-pointing crescent moon above a deep landscape with a town tucked into rolling
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.
a small stool and four children stand along the foreground of a landscape with rolling
Meindert Hobbema studied under the noted landscape artist Jacob van Ruisdael, and quite a few of his compositions evolved from the work of his erstwhile master. The Travelers, one of Hobbema’s largest works, is a close variant of a smaller painting of a watermill by Ruisdael now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
of the trees and the watermill are shown against the white and dove-gray clouds rolling
The Ponte Molle, also known as the Milvian Bridge, spans the Tiber River just north of Rome. The bridge’s picturesque character appealed to many 17th-century artists, including Jan Asselijn.
Beyond the riverbank, sunlight brushes the tops of rolling green hills.
A landscape extends into the distance to our right, with rolling green hills, trees
continues to wind into the deep distance, where towns nestle along the bases of rolling
How Grant Wood, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Thomas Hart Benton depicted the humble structures—and how they mask the struggles of farmers today.
painting, Earl Butz, President Richard Nixon’s secretary of agriculture, began rolling
There is a thatched roof above and a landscape with rolling hills and a river beyond
This large double portrait on horseback is unusual in Dutch art, because equestrian likenesses were initially reserved for sitting monarchs. Traditional portrait convention would have placed the woman to the left and slightly behind the man, yet this elegant lady on her magnificent steed occupies center stage.
dressed man and woman ride horses toward us and to our right in a landscape with low, rolling
