Paintings of the Alps from just a little while back. Swiss. Alexandre Calame, artist. Living from 1810 to 1864, Calame exhibited his landscapes in Paris and Berlin. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school.
Category: Landscapes
Glacier art. Swiss, painted by Jean-Antoine Linck. Living from 1766 to 1843, he painted landscapes.
Colored etching. Collections of the Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Genève. In the public domain due to age. via http://vanishingice.org/linck-nussbaumer/
People wandering around in landscapes that aren’t your standard thing. Flemish. Joos de Momper the Younger, artist. Living from 1564 to 1635, he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke at the age of 17. Learned to paint from his father. At the tail end of the Mannerist school.
Portraits of the park of Gatchina Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Painted by Johann Jakob Mettenleiter who was born in Baden-Württemberg (Germany) in 1750 and died at Gatchina in 1825.
In the garden with American painter Theodore Wores. Living from 1859 to 1939, he studied at the San Francisco School of Design and painted with William Merritt Chase. A friend of James Whistler and Oscar Wilde.
Lake Nemi, Italy. Various painters from various countries who all painted in Rome. Everyone did, sharing with what we would call studio/roommates if you weren’t rich enough to rent one by yourself.
Imagery of the ruins of the Nymphaeum of Alexander Severus (‘Temple of Minerva Medica’). So very worth a visit for artists making that all important trip to Italy back around 1800.
“Temple of Minerva Medica.” 1826. French. Oil on canvas. Camille Corot, artist (1796-1875). Collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, Angers. In the public domain due to age. via https://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-corot/temple-of-minerva-medica-1826
Waterfall art. Flemish. Simon-Joseph-Alexandre Clément Denis, artist (1755-1813).
Quiet paintings of trees and water with a few people. Perfect as the afternoon winds down. Belgian. Louis Pulinckx, landscape artist. Born in 1843 and living until 1910, Pulinckx was born in Antwerp and studied art in Paris under the Barbizon painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Exhibited at the 1875 Exposition générale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.
“Paysage à la rivière.” 19th c. Belgian. Oil on canvas. Image ©2020 Artnet Worldwide Corporation. via http://www.artnet.com/artists/louis-pulinckx/paysage-%C3%A0-la-rivi%C3%A8re-BzNGiH0CzIwo1ecmm3HXeQ2
Mountain landscapes, all of them with water, too. American. Charles Wilson Knapp, painter. Born in 1823, he died in 1900. Painted in the style of the Hudson River School.
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