Saturday, February 20, 2016

European landscapes with prominent skies, 16th-19th centuries

Jan Brueghel the Elder
Gypsy Gathering
ca. 1614
Prado

David Teniers
Landscape with Gypsies
ca. 1641-45
Prado

Here are several paintings from past centuries selected and grouped for the sake of their big aggressive skies. It would be supreme to see them in one large room, side by side. But that will never happen, of course, with their ownership divided among 1) the Prado in Madrid, 2) the Met in New York, and 3) the Getty in Los Angeles.

Pierre Henri de Valenciennes
Sky at Dusk
ca. 1800
Metropolitan Museum

Pierre Henri de Valenciennes
Stormy Sky
ca. 1800
Metropolitan Museum

Francesco Guardi
Fantastic Landscape
ca. 1765
Metropolitan Museum

Simon Denis
Cloud Study
ca. 1796-1806
Metropolitan Museum

Simon Denis
Sunset, Rome
1790s
Metropolitan Museum

William Turner of Oxford
Stonehenge, Twilight
ca. 1840
Getty

Philips Koninck
Panoramic Landscape
ca. 1649
Metropolitan Museum

Jan van Goyen
View of Haarlem
1646
Metropolitan Museum

Hendrick Jacobsz Dubbels
Amsterdam, Winter
ca. 1656-60
Prado

Claude-Joseph Vernet
The Kite
1782
Prado