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It depicts the Forest of Fontainebleau near Fontainebleau. [1] Corot exhibited the painting at the Salon of 1834 at the Louvre in Paris. It is sometimes confused with another view of Fontainebleau which was exhibited at the Salon of 1831. [2] Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. [3]
The subject of this painting was originally to form part of a piece inspired by Burne-Jones's visit to Italy in 1872. The original had intended to depict "the beginning of the world — with Pan and Echo and sylvan gods, and a forest full of centaurs, and a wild background of woods, mountains and rivers."
The forest was a popular landscape subject for nineteenth-century French artists, particularly the forest of Fontainebleau. Before Renoir, Claude Monet (1840–1926) painted Bazille and Camille (Study for "Déjeuner sur l'Herbe") (1865), showing a couple together in the forest. In 1869, Renoir and Monet spent time painting together at La ...
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 ...
The Forest of Fontainebleau: Morning is an oil painting by Théodore Rousseau, completed between 1849 and 1851. It was exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1850 to 1851. It is on display at the Wallace Collection, in London. [1] It is a landscape painting that depicts the forest of Fontainebleau in the morning. [2]
The painting depicts rugged mountains on the left and background that reach out to a bright sky with the Sun's rays peeking through the clouds. The mountains look over a calm lake with a group of elk and waterfowl on its edge and is bordered by trees on the right side of the painting. [ 7 ]
Forest is a landscape painted in oils on canvas, which measures 81.9 cm x 66 cm. The location represented in the painting may be the entrance to the Château Noir, an estate that Cézanne frequented in order to paint. The composition employs warm, earthy colours to depict the red rocks in the centre of the painting.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog [a] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [2] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely.