Saturday, December 21, 2024

Tree Portraits - Loose

Jacques d'Arthois
Landscape with Hunters
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota

Gaspard Dughet
Landscape with Hagar and the Angel
ca. 1670
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

Cornelis Huysmans
Landscape with Hermit
ca. 1680
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

François Boucher
Study of Willow Trees
before 1770
drawing
Hamburger Kunsthalle

John Constable
Woodland Scene overlooking Dedham Vale
ca. 1802-1803
oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Le Repos sous les Saules
ca. 1870
oil on canvas
Musée des Ursulines de Mâcon

Camille Pissarro
Edge of the Wood, L'Hermitage, Pontoise
1879
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Thomas Moran
Long Island Landscape
1898
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Paula Modersohn-Becker
Worpswede Landscape
ca. 1903
oil on cardboard
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret
Willows by a Stream
1908
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Mary Louise McLaughlin
Figure in a Landscape
1913
oil on canvas
Toledo Art Museum, Ohio

Pierre Bonnard
The Violet Fence
1923
oil on canvas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Forest in Winter
1925-26
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Max Liebermann
House on the Wannsee
1926
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
Dune in the Forest
1935
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Georg Baselitz
Forest Upside-Down
1969
oil on canvas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Agidas [soliloquy, having given offence to Tamburlaine]:

Betraide by fortune and suspitious love,
Threatned with frowning wrath and jealousie,
Surpriz'd with feare of hideous revenge,
I stand agast: but most astonied
To see his choller shut in secrete thoughtes,
And wrapt in silence of his angry soule.
Upon his browes was pourtraid ugly death,
And in his eies the furie of his hart,
That shine as Comets, menacing revenge,
And casts a pale complexion on his cheeks,
As when the Sea-man sees the Hyades
Gather an armye of Cemerian clouds,
(Auster and Aquilon with winged Steads
All sweating, tilt about the watery heavens,
And from their shieldes strike flames of lightening)
All fearfull foldes his sailes, and sounds the maine,
Lifting his prayers to the heavens for aid,
Against the terrour of the winds and waves.
So fares Agydas for the late felt frownes
That sent a tempest to my daunted thoughtes,
And makes my soule devine her overthrow.

– Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, The First Part, act III, scene ii (1590)