Monday, November 21, 2016

European Landscapes at the Metropolitan Museum I

Constantin Hansen
Temple of Neptune, Paestum
1828
Metropolitan Museum of Art

"The word quality has become a nasty word and is thought to be the wrong category to focus on," Thaw told an interviewer in 2007 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. "I've never agreed with that."

The New York art dealer Eugene V. Thaw also collected privately for himself throughout the course of a long career. One area of interest was European landscapes of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many occupying the halfway territory between sketches and conventionally finished paintings. The creators of these works were seemingly united in some sort of futile endeavor to disregard the dawning Industrial Revolution. Images are made available by the Metropolitan Museum. The Thaw Collection is now jointly owned by the Metropolitan Museum and the Morgan Library.

Giovanni Battista Camuccini
Etruscan Ruin
1840s
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wilhelm Marstrand
Fountain in Rome
ca. 1836-41
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lorenz Frølich
Large Oak
1837
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Louis Auguste Lapito
Clearing at the edge of a wood
19th century
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Achille Etna Michallon
Beech Tree
ca. 1817
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gilles François Joseph Closson
Cluster of Trees
19th century
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Simon Denis
Landscape near Rome with Storm
ca. 1786-1806
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Martinus Rørbye
Citadel Ramparts by Moonlight, Copenhagen
1839
Metropolitan Museum of Art

François Marius Granet
Villa Maecenas Stables, Tivoli
ca. 1805-10
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wilhelm Bendz
Study of Light in Vaulted Interior
19th century
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Carl Gustave Carus
Overgrown Mineshaft
ca. 1824
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gustaf Söderberg
Grotto of Posillipo, Naples
1820
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Achille Etna Michallon
Trees, Bois de Boulogne
ca. 1812-15
Metropolitan Museum of Art