depicts: sky / material used: canvas

instance of: painting (1,424) | study (8) | sketch (4) | artwork copy (3) | carton (2) | reception piece (2) | reredos (1) | drawing (1) | hand fan (1) | work (1) | artwork original version (1) | envoi de Rome (1) | watercolor painting (1) | destroyed artwork (1)

commissioned by: France (1) | Louis XV of France (1) | Louis XIV of France (1) | Charles X of France (1) | Charles V (1) | Philip II of Spain (1) | Georges Petit (1) | William I of Württemberg (1) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Manuel de Godoy, Prince of the Peace (1) | Philip IV of Spain (1) | Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1) | Giovanni Battista Sommariva (1) | Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de La Vrillière (1) | Thomas Gold Appleton (1) | William Imrie (1) | William Thompson Walters (1)

owned by: France (46) | Birmingham Museum of Art (9) | Carmen Cervera (6) | Louis XV of France (4) | Ambroise Vollard (4) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (4) | Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (4) | Louis XIV of France (3) | Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (3) | Dallas Museum of Art (3) | Napoleon III (2) | Philip II of Spain (2) | Christina of Sweden (2) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (2) | Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Regent of France (2) | Cardinal Mazarin (2) | William V (2) | Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer (2)

movement: academic art (45) | Impressionism (40) | Orientalism (27) | Venetian school (21) | Romanticism (14) | rococo (13) | neoclassicism (10) | Hudson River School (10) | neo-Pompeian (9) | mannerism (8) | Baroque (7) | Symbolism (7) | High Renaissance (7) | Realism (6) | Realism (6) | Post-Impressionism (5) | Barbizon school (4) | classicism (4)

genre: landscape art (701) | marine art (187) | genre art (131) | nude (115) | mythological painting (84) | capriccio (53) | religious art (44) | portrait (40) | cityscape (37) | animal painting (30) | history painting (22) | architectural view (22) | allegory (16) | figure painting (12) | veduta (11) | idyll (11) | architectural painting (10) | full-length portrait (10)

named after: spring (1) | Royal Palace of El Pardo (1)

based on: Metamorphoses (14) | Venus and Adonis (6) | Penitent Magdalene (6) | birth of Aphrodite (6) | Greek mythology (5) | Book of Genesis (3) | Cupid and Psyche (3) | Saint George and the Dragon (3) | Susanna and the Elders (3) | Milky Way (2) | Don Quixote (1) | Ovid (1) | Iliad (1) | Exodus (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Trojan War (1) | Franco-Prussian War (1) | crucifixion of Jesus (1)

artist: Asher Brown Durand (53) | Jasper Francis Cropsey (48) | Claude Monet (42) | Sanford Robinson Gifford (37) | Robert S. Duncanson (36) | Hermann Ottomar Herzog (29) | Martin Johnson Heade (29) | Alfred Thompson Bricher (26) | Jacob Maris (25) | Camille Pissarro (24) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (24) | Thomas Hill (24) | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (21) | Laurits Andersen Ring (19) | Thomas Chambers (19) | Anton Mauve (18) | Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (17) | Titian (16)

part of the series: Astronomical Observations (8) | Baigneuses (Bathers) (4) | Two men contemplating the Moon (2) | View of The Hague from the Delftse Vaart in the 17th Century (2) | Isle of the Dead (1) | Danaë (1) | Copies by Vincent van Gogh (1) | Naked Dave (1)

collection: private collection (179) | Musée d'Orsay (84) | Rijksmuseum (80) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (67) | Statens Museum for Kunst (55) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (43) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (38) | Brooklyn Museum (34) | National Gallery of Art (26) | National Gallery (23) | High Museum of Art (19) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (18) | Mauritshuis (14) | Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (14) | Birmingham Museum of Art (13) | Museum of Fine Arts (11) | Hermitage Museum (11) | Museo del Prado (11)

location: Rijksmuseum (79) | Musée d'Orsay (77) | Statens Museum for Kunst (53) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (42) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (38) | Brooklyn Museum (33) | National Gallery of Art (26) | High Museum of Art (19) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (16) | National Gallery (16) | Mauritshuis (14) | Birmingham Museum of Art (13) | Museum of Fine Arts (11) | Hermitage Museum (11) | Museo del Prado (11) | Walters Art Museum (11) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (11) | Hirschsprung Collection (11)

part of: Danish Culture Canon (3) | View of The Hague from the Delftse Vaart in the 17th Century (2) | Virgin of the rocks (1) | Two men contemplating the Moon (1)

country of origin: United States of America (438) | France (46) | Denmark (13) | Germany (8) | Spain (7) | Italy (4) | United Kingdom (3) | Soviet Union (2) | Switzerland (1) | Netherlands (1) | Russia (1) | Noruega (1)

exhibition history: Corot 1796-1875 (11) | Europeana 280 (9) | A beautiful lie - Eckersberg (7) | International Exposition 1867 (6) | 2nd impressionist exhibition (5) | 1st impressionist exhibition (5) | 3rd impressionist exhibition (4) | Salon of 1859 (4) | Dahl and Friedrich. Romantic Landscapes (4) | De Corot à l'art moderne. Souvenirs et variations (4) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (3) | The Dance of Life – The collection from antiquity to 1950 (3) | Salon of 1863 (3) | 4th impressionist exhibition (3) | Salon of 1870 (3) | Corot. The Painter and his Models (3) | Art 3. Works from the collection 1814-1950 (3) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (2)

main subject: Venus Anadyomene (9) | hunting (8) | winter landscape (7) | Penitent Magdalene (6) | Lake George (3) | Susanna and the Elders (3) | Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (2) | Sacra Conversazione (2) | Saint George and the Dragon (2) | Madonna and Child (2) | death (1) | lesbian (1) | poverty (1) | art of painting (1) | art of sculpture (1) | architecture (1) | Lake Lucerne (1) | washing (1)

donated by: Baldomero Giménez (1) | Alexandre de Riquer (1) | J.E.R. Chilton (1) | Robert R. Rosenbaum (1) | Carolann Smurthwaite (1)

location of final assembly: United States of America (9) | Arles (7) | France (5) | Auvers-sur-Oise (4) | Paris (3) | Rome (3) | Venice (2) | Nuenen (2) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (2) | Étretat (2) | Louveciennes (2) | Europe (1) | New York City (1) | Mexico (1) | California (1) | Brazil (1) | Cuba (1) | Milan (1)

published in: Piet Mondrian: catalogue raisonné (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (9) | encaustic painting (1)