Rivers and lakes
Still and moving water inland. 183 works, grouped by the museums' own subject tags and titles. Paintings first, then in date order.
183works
50average lightness (0–100)
14average colourfulness
1279–1939dates
Combined colour mix
Grey 27% · Gold & ochre 18% · Brown 17% · Black 13% · Green 11%
Artists here: Claude Monet (11), Utagawa Hiroshige (9), Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (4), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (4), Georges Seurat (4), Katsushika Hokusai (4), Alfred Sisley (3), Winslow Homer (3), Keisai Eisen (3), Théodore Rousseau (2), Charles-François Daubigny (2), Thomas Eakins (2)
Yang Pu Moving His Family
Unknown artist, Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) 元朝
Triptych of the Crucifixion with Saints Anthony, Christopher, James and George
Netherlandish, c. 1400
Bamboo-Covered Stream in Spring Rain
Xia Chang, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1441
Clouds over the River before Rain 溪雲欲雨圖
Shen Zhou, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1504
Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right)
An Kyŏn, ca. 1450–1500
Return to Stone Lake 石湖歸棹圖
Shen Zhou, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), dated 1466
Wild geese descending to sandbar
Unidentified artist, late 15th–early 16th century
Phaeton Driving the Chariot of Phoebus
Northern Italian, 1475–1500
Virgin and Child
Hans Memling, c. 1485
Portrait of a Donor (recto); Saint Anthony of Padua (verso)
Hans Memling, c. 1485
Going up the River at the Qingming Festival
Qiu Ying, Ming Dynasty (1369–1644); late 16th c. 1495–1551
The Baptism of Christ
Perugino, 1500–05
Virgin and Child
Workshop of Adriaen Isenbrant, c. 1520
Portrait of Fridrich Rorbach
Conrad Faber, 1532
The Temptation of Saint Jerome
Giorgio Vasari, 1541–48
Two Peasants Looking at a Mirror
Follower of Jan Massys, c. 1550
The Gopis Plead with Krishna to Return Their Clothing: Folio from "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana
Master of the "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana, ca. 1560–65
Christ on the Cross
Flemish, c. 1580–c. 1600
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness
Workshop of Paolo Veronese, 1585–90
Mountain Landscape
Joos de Momper, II, c. 1610
Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness
Adam Elsheimer, c. 1605
Landscape with Figures
Joos de Momper, II, c. 1610
Mountain Road with Travelers
Joos de Momper, II, c. 1615
Landscape with Hunters
Paul Bril, 1619
Alpheus and Arethusa
Moses van Uyttenbroeck, 1626
A View of Vianen with a Herdsman and Cattle by a River
Aelbert Cuyp, c. 1643–c. 1645
Nymphs Bathing
Dirck van der Lisse, c. 1650
Landscape with Rock and Fortress
Domenico Gargiuli (Micco Spadaro), c. 1645
River Landscape with a View of Naarden
Salomon van Ruysdael, 1642
Italian Landscape with Travelers
Jan Both, c. 1650
Ecce Agnus Dei
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1655
Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond
Jacob van Ruisdael, 1650–55
The Tiber River with the Ponte Molle at Sunset
Jan Asselijn, c. 1650
The Watermill with the Great Red Roof
Meindert Hobbema, c. 1665
Polycrates and the Fisherman
Salvator Rosa, 1664
View of Delphi with a Procession
Claude Lorrain, 1673
Arcadian Landscape with Figures
Alessandro Magnasco, c. 1700
Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering)
Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718–21
Appenine Landscape
François Lemoyne, c. 1730
Man with Staff by a Stream
Hua Yan, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?)
François Boucher, 1747
The Grand Canal, Venice
Francesco Guardi, c. 1760
Morning
Joseph Vernet, 1760
Portrait of a Man
Arthur Devis, 1763
The Demon Sambar Throws the Infant Pradyumna into the River, page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana manuscript
Unknown artist, c. 1775
View on the River Roseau, Dominica
Agostino Brunias, 1770–80
Girl on River Bank
Katsukawa Shunchô, c. 1780/95
Landscape with Figures Crossing a Bridge
John Rathbone, 1790–1800
Mount Athos Carved as a Monument to Alexander the Great
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1796
Portrait of the Maistre Sisters
Antoine-Jean Gros, 1796
Landscape with Cottages
John Constable, 1809–10
Mansion by the River 青櫺歸隱圖
Zhang Yin, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 1810 清朝
Hampstead, Stormy Sky
Style of John Constable, 1814
Landscape
Théodore Rousseau, c. 1835
The Estuary Farm
Jules Dupré, 1831–34
Matsuchiyama on the Sumida River
Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo period, 1856
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
Thomas Cole, 1836
Nymphs Leaving the Bath
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1843
Wounded Lioness
Pierre Andrieu, c. 1850
Landscape
Théodore Rousseau, c. 1850
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham, 1845
Landscape with Sheep, Picardy
Harry Thompson, Late 19th century
The Brook of Les Puits-Noir
Gustave Courbet, c. 1855
River Boat
Charles-François Daubigny, c. 1860
Bathing Nymphs and Child
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1855–60
The Cottage by the Roadside, Stormy Sky
Jules Dupré, c. 1860
Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church, 1859
On the Bank of the Seine at Portejoie
Charles-François Daubigny, c. 1865
Cows in a Pond at Sunset
Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1860
Pond in the Woods
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz, 1862
The Banks of the River Durance at Saint Paul
Paul Guigou, 1864
Souvenir of the Environs of Lake Nemi
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865
Landscape
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865/70
The Church of Overschie
Johan Jongkind, 1866
View on the Seine, Paris
Stanislas Lépine, c. 1872
Landscape
Marcel Ordinaire, 1867
On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt
Claude Monet, 1868
Lake George
John Frederick Kensett, 1869
Landscape along the Seine with the Institut de France and the Pont des Arts
Alfred Sisley, c. 1875
On the Nile
Eugène Fromentin, 1871
The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)
Thomas Eakins, 1871
The Apple Market
Stanislas Lépine, c. 1880
The Seine at Port-Marly, Piles of Sand
Alfred Sisley, 1875
A Stream in France
Stanislas Lépine, c. 1880
Washerwomen at the Edge of the Pond
Eugène Louis Boudin, c. 1880
Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1875
Study for "William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River"
Thomas Eakins, 1876–77
Near the Lake
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1879–80
Looking upon the River
Julie Hart Beers, 1880
Canal in Venice
Martín Rico, 1880s
Houses on the Fox River, Illinois
Artist unknown, 1881–90
Mon Ancien Regiment
Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille, 1881
Two Sisters (On the Terrace)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881
Green River Cliffs, Wyoming
Thomas Moran, 1881
In the Sea
Arnold Böcklin, 1883
Final Study for "Bathers at Asnières"
Georges Seurat, 1883
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