Famous landscape paintings
paintings of Landscape
— Famous works
16th century BC
- Spring Fresco, Akrotiri, Santorini (Around 1550 – 1500 b.c., National Archaeological Museum of Athens)
1st century BC
- Landscape with Odysseus, fresco from Via Graziosa (c. 60-40 BC, Vatican Museums)
1st century
- Landscape with holy tree, Pompeii (c.20, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)
- Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
4th century
- Gu Kaizhi. Nymph of the Luo River (ca.380)
7th century
- Zhan Ziqian, Strolling About in Spring (c. 600)
8th century
- Li Zhaodao. Ming Huang's Journey to Shu (ca.720-740, National Palace Museum, Taiwan)
10th century
- Li Cheng. Buddhist Temple in Mountain (ca.960, Nelson-Atkins)
11th century
- Fan Kuan. Travellers amid Mountains and Streams (ca.1020, National Palace Museum. Taiwan)
- Guo Xi. Early Spring (ca.1070, National Palace Museum. Taiwan)
12th century
- Zhang Zeduan. Along the River During the Qingming Festival or Qingming Shanghe Tu.(ca.1100-1145, Palace Museum, Beijing)
13th century
- Ma Yuan. Dancing and singing - Peasants Returning from Work (ca.1200, Beijing Palace Museum)
14th century
- Li Kan, Bamboos and Rock c. 1300
- Giotto. Flight into Egypt (detail) 1304-1306, Cappella degli Scrovegni (Padua)
- Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Allegory of Good Government. Effects of Good Government in the countryside (1338-1340, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena)
- Œuvres poétiques de Guillaume de Machaut, - Le Verger mystrieux - 1355-60
- Unknown artist, Sarai Albums, Tabriz (Persia) Abduction of Zal by the Simurgh (ca.1370, Topkapı Palace Museum)
15th century
- Taikō Josetsu. Catching a catfish with a gourd (ca.1413, Myōshin-ji temple, Taizō-in Kyoto)
- Sesshū Tōyō. Haboku-Sansui (Landscape with ink broken) (ca.1413, Tokyo National Museum)
- Illumination of goldfinch catching by the Maître du Girart de Roussillon, from: Henri de Ferrières, Livres du roy Modus et de la royne Ratio (Brussels, KBR, ms. 10218-19). Circa 1430-1455.
- Tenshō Shūbun. Reading in a Bamboo Grove (1446)
- Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (Mid. 15th century, Musée Condé, Chantilly)
- Shen Zhou. Lofty Mountain (ca.1480, National Palace Museum, Taiwan)
- Giovanni Bellini. Sacred Allegory (c. 1490, Uffizi)
- Albrecht Dürer. View of Arco (1495, Louvre)
16th century
- Shen Zhou, Poet on a Mountain c. 1500
- Giorgione, Tempest, (c. 1515, Accademia Galleries, Venice)
- Guillaume II Le Roy. Complainte au dieu d'Amour de Pierre Sala (1517-1523)
- Joachim Patinir. Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx (ca.1520, Prado)
- Albrecht Altdorfer.Danube landscape near Regensburg (ca. 1522–25, Alte Pinakothek)
- Tang Yin, A Fisher in Autumn (1523)
- Landscape with saints by Dosso Dossi (1530s, Pushkin museum)
- Titian, La Vierge au Lapin à la Loupe (The Virgin of the Rabbit) (1530, Louvre, Paris).
- The Emperor Guangwu Fording a River by Qiu Ying (c. 1534-42, National Gallery of Canada)
- Melchior Lorck. View over the rooftops of Constantinople, 1555-1559, pen and ink (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen)
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Hunters in the Snow (ca.1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
- Hasegawa Tohaku. Pine Trees (Shorin-zu-byobu) (ca.1580, Tokyo National Museum)
- Annibale Carracci. Fishing (before 1596, Louvre)
- Paul Bril. Fantastic landscape (1598)
17th century
- El Greco. View of Toledo (ca.1604-14, MetMuseum)
- Adam Elsheimer. The Rest on The Flight into Egypt (1609, Alte Pinakotek)
- Jan van Goyen, Dune landscape, (c. 1630-1635, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
- Rembrandt, The Three Trees, (1643)
- Claude Lorrain. Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba (1648, National Gallery, London)
- Poussin. Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydike (1650-1, Louvre)
- Johannes Vermeer. View on Delft (1660-1, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis)
- Jacob Van Ruysdael. View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds (ca.1665-75, Kunsthaus Zürich)
- Meindert Hobbema. The Avenue at Middelharnis (1689, National Gallery, London)
- Tao Chi, Spring on the Min River (late 17th century)
18th century
- Canaletto. Bucentaur's return to the pier by the Palazzo Ducale. 1730
- Jeong Seon. Geumgang jeondo (General view of Mt. Geumgangsan / The Diamond Mountains) (1734, Hoam Gallery)
- Thomas Gainsborough. Mr. and Mrs. Andrews (1749, National Gallery, London)
- Richard Wilson. Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle (1765 - 1766, Walker Art gallery)
- Ogata Korin. Red and white plum bossoms (18th century, MOA Museum of Art)
19th century
Caspar David Friedrich. Wanderer above the sea of fog (1818, Hamburger Kunsthalle)- Joseph Anton Koch. Heroic landscape with rainbow (1805, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe)
- John Constable. The Hay Wain (landscape: noon) (1821, National Gallery, London)
- Thomas Cole. View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm — The Oxbow (1836, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Asher Brown Durand. Kindred Spirits (1849, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art)
- Joseph Mallord William Turner. Norham Castle, Sunrise (ca.1845, Tate Britain)
- Utagawa Hiroshige. One Hundred Famous Views of Edo: The Plum Garden in Kameido (1857-1858)
- Frederick Edwin Church. The Heart of the Andes (1859, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Albert Bierstadt. The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Eugene von Guérard. North-east View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko (1863, National Gallery of Australia)
- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864, Louvre)
- Camille Pissarro, Lordship Lane Station, (c. 1870, Courtauld Institute of Art)
- Eugène von Guérard. Lake Wakatipu with Mount Earnslaw, Middle Island, New Zealand (1877 - 1879, Auckland Art Gallery)
- Alfred Sisley. Meadow (1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night (1889, Vincent van Gogh in the Van Gogh Museum)
Claude Monet. Impression, soleil levant, (1872, Musée Marmottan Monet)- Georges Seurat. The Seine at La Grande Jatte. (1888, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
- Paul Cézanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire (1885-1887, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Albert Pinkham Ryder, Seacoast in Moonlight (1890, the Phillips Collection, Washington)
- Paul Gauguin. Tahitian Landscape (1891, Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
- Isaac Levitan, Above Eternal Peace, 1894
- Ivan Shishkin. Mast Pine Forest in Viatka Province (1895)
20th century
- Themistokles von Eckenbrecher. View of Laerdalsoren, on the Sognefjord (1901)
- Gustav Klimt. Tannenwald (Pine Forest), (c.1902, Kunsthaus Zug)
- Paul Ranson. Apple Tree with Red Fruit, (c.1902)
- Henri Rousseau. The Snake Charmer (1907, Musée d'Orsay)
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Naked Playing People, (1910, Pinakothek der Moderne, München)
- Alexej von Jawlensky. Loneliness (1912, Museum am Ostwall)
- Egon Schiele. The Little City II (View from Bohemian Krumlov), 1912-1913
- Paul Klee. View into the Fertile Country. (1932, Städel)
