Landscapes
Landscapes in Art: Open Views and Distant Horizons
Step back and breathe. This gallery zooms into the wide-open moments in painting — sunlit hills, winding rivers, distant horizons. They are the passages painters used to let air and light into a picture, and they still feel like a window thrown open. Click any detail to see the full landscape.
24 details · cropped from original museum images
Overall composition: The Three Trees
Rembrandt van Rijn · The Three Trees
Art Institute of Chicago
entire work
Gustave Courbet · The Sea
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
overall composition
Winslow Homer · The Return, Tynemouth (recto) Study (verso)
Art Institute of Chicago
Full etched landscape
Paul Cézanne · Landscape at Auvers
Art Institute of Chicago
Flock of sheep in a snowstorm
August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck · Lost: Souvenir of Auvergne
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
overall drawing area
John Constable · Binfield Rectory and Church, Berkshire
Art Institute of Chicago
Overall view of George Sand's Garden at Nohant
Eugène Delacroix · George Sand's Garden at Nohant
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
main print area
Camille Pissarro · Wooded Lane at Pontoise
Art Institute of Chicago
Main rocky terrain
Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910) · Coast of Maine
Art Institute of Chicago
Right Screen: Willow Bridge and Waterwheel
Hasegawa Soya · Willow Bridge and Waterwheel
Art Institute of Chicago
central waterspout
Gustave Courbet · Marine: The Waterspout
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
central large rock formation
Asher B. Durand · Study of Rocks in Pearson's Ravine
Art Institute of Chicago
central haystack
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · Stack of Wheat
Art Institute of Chicago
double rainbow
Charles François Daubigny · Landscape with a Rainbow
Art Institute of Chicago
entire drawing area
Franz Kobell · Landscape with River and Distant Hills
Art Institute of Chicago
overall landscape of evening at Lake Arresø
Johan Thomas Lundbye · An Evening beside Lake Arresø
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Overall river landscape
Camille Corot · River with a Distant Tower
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
large central haystack
Camille Pissarro · Haymakers of Eragny
Art Institute of Chicago
overall lyrical landscape
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875) · Landscape
Art Institute of Chicago
massive dark mountain mass
Marsden Hartley (American, 1877–1943) · The Dark Mountain
Art Institute of Chicago
The Rock of Hautepierre
Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877) · The Rock of Hautepierre
Art Institute of Chicago
Overall landscape of Bordighera
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · Bordighera
Art Institute of Chicago
overall composition
Marcel Blairat · View of Flowers and Trees along a River Bank
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
main composition area
David Lucas · A Sea Beach
The Metropolitan Museum of Art