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Landscape with Figures and Animals is a 1763 landscape painting by the French artist Philip James de Loutherbourg. [1] It was the first painting the young Alsatian artist publicly exhibited. He submitted it to the Salon of 1763 at the Louvre in Paris where the art critic Denis Diderot's praise of it helped launch his career. [2]
The painting, an oil on canvas, is based on Jan Vermeer's A View of Deflt, and was selected by a jury that included Peter Blake, Tracey Emin, and Jason Brooks. [ 3 ] John Spurling , writing for The Spectator in 2009, described him as "a bold and ambitious artist using the past to rediscover and repossess the natural world of our own time ...
Wivenhoe Park is a painting of an English landscape park, the estate of the Rebow family, by the English Romantic painter, John Constable (1776–1837). [1] [2]John Constable was born in Suffolk, and is known principally for his landscape paintings, especially the landscapes of the countryside where he spent his childhood.
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Bigger Trees Near Warter or ou Peinture en Plein Air pour l'age Post-Photographique is a large landscape painting by British artist David Hockney.Measuring 460 by 1,220 centimetres or 180 by 480 inches, [2] it depicts a coppice near Warter, Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire and is the largest painting Hockney has completed.
Dedham Vale National Landscape is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Essex-Suffolk border in east England. It comprises the area around the River Stour between Manningtree and Smallbridge Farm, 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Bures , including the village of Dedham in Essex.
The Icebergs is an 1861 oil painting by the American landscape artist Frederic Edwin Church. It was inspired by his 1859 voyage to the North Atlantic around Newfoundland and Labrador . Considered one of Church's "Great Pictures"—measuring 1.64 by 2.85 metres (5.4 by 9.4 feet) [ 1 ] —the painting depicts one or more icebergs in the afternoon ...
Walters Art Museum: Landscape: 18th century MuMa Museum of modern art André Malraux: Helmingham Dell. Vallon dans le parc de Helmingham: 1800s Department of Paintings of the Louvre: Vue de Salisbury: 1800s Department of Paintings of the Louvre: The White Horse: 1819 The Frick Collection: Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden: 1800s ...