Room 158

Moody Landscapes

1648–1881, Holland, France, USA, Norway, Themed room

Twilight, stormy skies and dark forests: Hobbema and van der Neer painted Holland’s woods and moonlit nights, Diaz and Rousseau the forest of Fontainebleau. American painters such as Cropsey, Doughty and Allston found their own sublime in the autumn woods along the Hudson.

All works

• Approaching Storm from the Alban Hills
• The Pond at the Entrance of the Woods
• Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest
• Twilight in the Wilderness
• The Wheat Field
• Fir Trees and Storm Clouds
• Landscape with Boatman
• Autumn - On the Hudson River
• Moonlit Landscape with Bridge
• The Approaching Storm
• View from Vaekero near Christiania
• The Edge of the Forest at Les Monts-Girard, Fontainebleau
• A Landscape after Sunset
• View of Mt. Washington
• View on the Hudson in Autumn
• Wooded Landscape with Figures
• After the Storm
• In the Forest
• The Frog Pond
• Peaceful Valley
• A Wooded Landscape
• Fanciful Landscape
• Forest Scene
• A View on a High Road
• Path Near the Pond of Vipers, Fontainebleau Forest
• Autumn