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instance of: painting (1,539) | watercolor painting (92) | drawing (20) | study (12) | print (7) | pastel (7) | sketch (6) | woodcut print (5) | mural (4) | work (4) | photograph (3) | sculpture (3) | carton (3) | oil painting (3) | reredos (2) | unfinished creative work (2) | sculpture capital (2) | panel painting (1)

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) | Zoological Society of London (1) | École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1) | Isabella d'Este (1) | John Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne (1) | Cassiano dal Pozzo (1) | Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de La Vrillière (1) | Thomas Gold Appleton (1) | William Imrie (1) | William Thompson Walters (1)

owned by: France (24) | Birmingham Museum of Art (15) | Dallas Museum of Art (6) | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (6) | Carmen Cervera (5) | National Gallery of Armenia (4) | Charles Savage Homer, Jr. (4) | Louis XV of France (3) | Phoenix Art Museum (3) | Louis XIV of France (2) | Arizona State University Art Museum (2) | Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (2) | William V (2) | François Depeaux (2) | Michel Monet (2) | Berry-Hill Galleries (2) | M. Bruce Sullivan (2) | Oliver B. James (2)

movement: Impressionism (21) | academic art (21) | Romanticism (17) | Venetian school (16) | Orientalism (14) | Dutch Golden Age painting (14) | Hudson River School (12) | Baroque (10) | Symbolism (8) | High Renaissance (8) | rococo (7) | neoclassicism (6) | mannerism (6) | Barbizon school (5) | Flemish Primitives (5) | Realism (5) | Realism (5) | classicism (4)

genre: landscape art (833) | marine art (230) | nude (96) | mythological painting (91) | genre art (88) | religious art (74) | allegory (39) | animal painting (37) | portrait (29) | capriccio (29) | architectural view (28) | cityscape (23) | history painting (20) | full-length portrait (9) | self-portrait (8) | floral painting (8) | idyll (7) | veduta (5)

named after: spring (1) | Lake Ladoga (1)

based on: Metamorphoses (25) | Greek mythology (6) | Venus and Adonis (6) | Saint George and the Dragon (5) | Penitent Magdalene (5) | Book of Genesis (2) | Cupid and Psyche (2) | Ovid (1) | Exodus (1) | Paradise Lost (1) | Odyssey (1) | The Divine Comedy (1) | Trojan War (1) | resurrection of Jesus (1) | crucifixion of Jesus (1) | Parsifal (1) | Battle of Nancy (1) | The Tiger Hunt (1)

artist: William Trost Richards (57) | Jasper Francis Cropsey (54) | Robert S. Duncanson (43) | Asher Brown Durand (40) | Sanford Robinson Gifford (38) | Alfred Thompson Bricher (38) | Claude Monet (36) | Jacob Maris (35) | Martin Johnson Heade (32) | Hermann Ottomar Herzog (29) | Jacob van Ruisdael (26) | Thomas Doughty (25) | Thomas Hill (24) | Johan Christian Dahl (23) | Peter Paul Rubens (18) | Thomas Chambers (18) | William Stanley Haseltine (16) | William-Adolphe Bouguereau (15)

part of the series: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (4) | Isle of the Dead (4) | Marie de' Medici cycle (4) | Baigneuses (Bathers) (2) | View of The Hague from the Delftse Vaart in the 17th Century (2) | One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1) | Danaë (1) | Бурното море (1)

material used: oil paint (1,368) | canvas (1,122) | paper (114) | watercolor paint (103) | wood (72) | panel (41) | canvas (35) | cardboard (22) | graphite (21) | board (15) | pencil (14) | gouache paint (13) | wove paper (13) | ink (11) | copper (7) | pastel (7) | tempera (5) | charcoal (4)

collection: private collection (162) | Rijksmuseum (85) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (85) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (80) | Brooklyn Museum (61) | Statens Museum for Kunst (61) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (46) | Musée d'Orsay (39) | National Gallery of Art (28) | Mauritshuis (27) | National Gallery (20) | Birmingham Museum of Art (20) | High Museum of Art (19) | MuMa Museum of modern art André Malraux (17) | Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (16) | National Museum in Warsaw (15) | Museum of Fine Arts (14) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (13)

location: Rijksmuseum (84) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (80) | Statens Museum for Kunst (60) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (44) | Musée d'Orsay (34) | Brooklyn Museum (34) | National Gallery of Art (28) | Mauritshuis (27) | Birmingham Museum of Art (20) | High Museum of Art (19) | National Gallery (16) | MuMa Museum of modern art André Malraux (16) | Museum of Fine Arts (14) | Museo del Prado (12) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (11) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art (11) | Yale Center for British Art (11) | Walters Art Museum (10)

part of: Marie de' Medici cycle (3) | Christ with singing and music-making Angels (3) | Isle of the Dead (2) | View of The Hague from the Delftse Vaart in the 17th Century (2) | reredos (1) | Danish Culture Canon (1) | Isabella d'Este Studiolo (1) | Cervara Polyptych (1) | Welsh Landscape Collection (1) | John Ingleby Watercolours (1) | Sketches in the Loyalty and other Islands, 1853 (1) | Norsk Prospect-Samling (1)

country of origin: United States of America (543) | France (27) | Denmark (13) | Italy (8) | Brazil (8) | Spain (4) | Switzerland (4) | United Kingdom (3) | England (1) | Netherlands (1) | Russia (1) | Germany (1)

exhibition history: Johan Christian Dahl 1788-1857. Jubilee Exhibition 1988 (12) | Dahl and Friedrich. Romantic Landscapes (9) | J.C. Dahl – The Power of Nature (9) | The Dance of Life – The collection from antiquity to 1950 (7) | Europeana 280 (7) | A beautiful lie - Eckersberg (6) | Art 3. Works from the collection 1814-1950 (6) | International Exposition 1867 (5) | Exposition Universelle of 1855 (4) | 2nd impressionist exhibition (4) | Corot 1796-1875 (4) | National Gallery of Art (2) | Phoenix Art Museum (2) | 3rd impressionist exhibition (2) | Salon of 1852 (2) | Salon of 1881 (2) | Salon of 1824 (2) | Salon of 1870 (2)

main subject: hunting (8) | Penitent Magdalene (5) | death (4) | Tower of Babel (4) | Saint George and the Dragon (4) | Madonna and Child (4) | Venus Anadyomene (3) | Lake George (3) | Lake Lucerne (2) | crucifixion of Jesus (2) | Noli me tangere (2) | Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (2) | Sacra Conversazione (2) | winter landscape (2) | Virgin Mary (1) | lesbian (1) | art of painting (1) | weather (1)

donated by: Ernest Fenollosa (1) | Baldomero Giménez (1) | J.E.R. Chilton (1) | Carl S. Dentzel (1) | Robert R. Rosenbaum (1) | Appleton S. Bridges (1) | Stuart P. Feld (1)

location of final assembly: United States of America (14) | France (5) | Paris (4) | Auvers-sur-Oise (3) | Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (3) | Netherlands (2) | California (2) | Rome (2) | Venezuela (2) | Seville (2) | Brooklyn (2) | Nuenen (2) | Étretat (2) | England (1) | Mexico (1) | Brazil (1) | Cuba (1) | Venice (1)

published in: Europe, a Prophecy (1) | A treatise on landscape painting and effect in water colours (1) | Piet Mondrian: catalogue raisonné (1)

fabrication method: oil painting (5) | lithography (1) | encaustic painting (1) | aquatint (1) | bas-relief (1)

time period: Baroque (1)