depicts: sky / instance of: painting

commissioned by: Afonso d'Escragnolle Taunay (2) | Paris (1) | 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) | Constantijn Huygens (1) | Philip IV of Spain (1) | Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1) | Francesco del Giocondo (1) | Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino (1) | Giovanni Battista Sommariva (1)

owned by: France (47) | Birmingham Museum of Art (12) | Carmen Cervera (8) | National Gallery of Armenia (8) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (7) | Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (6) | Louis XIV of France (5) | Louis XV of France (4) | Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (4) | Ambroise Vollard (4) | Cardinal Mazarin (3) | Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (3) | Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (3) | Louisine Havemeyer (3) | Dallas Museum of Art (3) | Napoleon III (2) | Catholic Church (2) | Philip II of Spain (2)

movement: academic art (46) | Impressionism (42) | Orientalism (30) | Romanticism (25) | Venetian school (22) | rococo (14) | Dutch Golden Age painting (13) | Symbolism (12) | neoclassicism (11) | Hudson River School (11) | High Renaissance (11) | mannerism (9) | neo-Pompeian (9) | Baroque (8) | Realism (7) | Realism (6) | Barbizon school (5) | Post-Impressionism (5)

genre: landscape art (918) | marine art (228) | genre art (172) | nude (161) | mythological painting (120) | religious art (83) | capriccio (66) | portrait (54) | animal painting (45) | cityscape (44) | history painting (35) | architectural view (31) | allegory (30) | full-length portrait (14) | idyll (12) | figure painting (12) | veduta (11) | self-portrait (10)

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

based on: Metamorphoses (26) | Greek mythology (8) | Penitent Magdalene (8) | Saint George and the Dragon (7) | birth of Aphrodite (7) | Venus and Adonis (6) | Susanna and the Elders (4) | Book of Genesis (3) | Cupid and Psyche (3) | Milky Way (2) | Judgement of Paris (2) | Jupiter (1) | Don Quixote (1) | Ovid (1) | Iliad (1) | Exodus (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Trojan War (1)

artist: Jasper Francis Cropsey (62) | Asher Brown Durand (53) | Sanford Robinson Gifford (53) | Claude Monet (43) | Robert S. Duncanson (43) | Alfred Thompson Bricher (33) | Martin Johnson Heade (33) | Johan Christian Dahl (31) | Hermann Ottomar Herzog (31) | Jacob Maris (31) | Thomas Hill (30) | Anton Mauve (26) | Camille Pissarro (25) | Thomas Doughty (25) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (24) | Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (22) | Martinus Rørbye (22) | Laurits Andersen Ring (19)

part of the series: Astronomical Observations (8) | Isle of the Dead (5) | Baigneuses (Bathers) (4) | Two men contemplating the Moon (2) | View of The Hague from the Delftse Vaart in the 17th Century (2) | Danaë (1) | Copies by Vincent van Gogh (1) | Naked Dave (1)

material used: oil paint (1,720) | canvas (1,424) | wood (108) | paper (59) | canvas (59) | panel (45) | watercolor paint (33) | cardboard (29) | board (15) | copper (10) | tempera (9) | gouache paint (9) | graphite (7) | pencil (7) | poplar wood (5) | corrugated fiberboard (4) | ink (3) | masonite (3)

collection: private collection (218) | Rijksmuseum (123) | Musée d'Orsay (86) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (80) | Statens Museum for Kunst (73) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (50) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (41) | Mauritshuis (39) | Brooklyn Museum (37) | National Gallery of Art (31) | National Gallery (27) | High Museum of Art (22) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (20) | Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (20) | Museo del Prado (16) | Birmingham Museum of Art (16) | Walters Art Museum (14) | National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (14)

location: Rijksmuseum (122) | Musée d'Orsay (79) | Statens Museum for Kunst (71) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (48) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (41) | Mauritshuis (39) | Brooklyn Museum (36) | National Gallery of Art (31) | High Museum of Art (22) | National Gallery (20) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (18) | Museo del Prado (16) | Birmingham Museum of Art (16) | Walters Art Museum (14) | Museu Paulista (14) | Hirschsprung Collection (13) | MuMa Museum of modern art André Malraux (13) | Hermitage Museum (12)

part of: Danish Culture Canon (3) | Isle of the Dead (2) | View of The Hague from the Delftse Vaart in the 17th Century (2) | The Months of the Year (2) | Virgin of the rocks (1) | Black Paintings (1) | Two men contemplating the Moon (1) | Sketches in the Loyalty and other Islands, 1853 (1) | Gift of 24 ethnographic paintings of Brazil and Africa (1)

country of origin: United States of America (556) | France (48) | Denmark (20) | Brazil (15) | Italy (9) | Spain (8) | Germany (8) | Switzerland (5) | United Kingdom (3) | Soviet Union (2) | Netherlands (1) | Russia (1) | Taiwan (1) | Noruega (1)

exhibition history: J.C. Dahl – The Power of Nature (14) | Johan Christian Dahl 1788-1857. Jubilee Exhibition 1988 (13) | Corot 1796-1875 (12) | Dahl and Friedrich. Romantic Landscapes (11) | Europeana 280 (11) | The Dance of Life – The collection from antiquity to 1950 (8) | Art 3. Works from the collection 1814-1950 (8) | A beautiful lie - Eckersberg (7) | International Exposition 1867 (6) | 2nd impressionist exhibition (6) | 1st impressionist exhibition (5) | 3rd impressionist exhibition (4) | Salon of 1863 (4) | Salon of 1859 (4) | Corot. The Painter and his Models (4) | De Corot à l'art moderne. Souvenirs et variations (4) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (3) | 4th impressionist exhibition (3)

main subject: winter landscape (18) | Venus Anadyomene (11) | hunting (9) | Penitent Magdalene (8) | Tower of Babel (7) | death (5) | Saint George and the Dragon (5) | Madonna and Child (4) | Susanna and the Elders (4) | Sacra Conversazione (3) | Leda and the Swan (3) | Lake George (3) | Bathsheba at her bath (3) | Lake Lucerne (2) | washing (2) | crucifixion of Jesus (2) | Noli me tangere (2) | Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (2)

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

location of final assembly: United States of America (11) | Arles (7) | France (6) | Paris (4) | Auvers-sur-Oise (4) | Rome (3) | Germany (2) | Venice (2) | Florence (2) | Nuenen (2) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (2) | Étretat (2) | Louveciennes (2) | Europe (1) | Netherlands (1) | New York City (1) | Mexico (1) | California (1)

published in: Piet Mondrian: catalogue raisonné (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (13) | encaustic painting (1)

time period: Baroque (1)