Swiss Landscape

Deutsche Malerei 1622–1924, c. 1830

We look out over a patchwork of cultivated fields that slope down to our right and back to an ice-blue lake in this nearly square landscape painting. Rectangular fields fill the lower half of the composition in fern green, caramel brown, and golden tan. Sage-colored trees and bushes with dark brown trunks and branches separate the strip of grassy earth closest to us from the fields just beyond, and are scattered like tufts through the landscape. A rocky, slate-gray mountain brushed with lime-green trees that rises along the left edge of the canvas curves around a wedge of the arctic-blue lake. A few wispy cream-white clouds line the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition.
Artist
Deutsche Malerei 1622–1924
Date
c. 1830
Type
Painting
Medium
oil on paper on canvas
Dimensions
40 × 52 cm
Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Licence
Public domain, CC0

Image description

We look out over a patchwork of cultivated fields that slope down to our right and back to an ice-blue lake in this nearly square landscape painting. Rectangular fields fill the lower half of the composition in fern green, caramel brown, and golden tan. Sage-colored trees and bushes with dark brown trunks and branches separate the strip of grassy earth closest to us from the fields just beyond, and are scattered like tufts through the landscape. A rocky, slate-gray mountain brushed with lime-green trees that rises along the left edge of the canvas curves around a wedge of the arctic-blue lake. A few wispy cream-white clouds line the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition.

Deutsche Malerei 1622–1924