Landscape

Datec. 1860

DimensionsSight: 8 1/2 × 12 5/16 in. (21.6 × 31.3 cm)

Object numberN0196.1965

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Dorothy Whitaker

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextAlthough undated and a sketch, this painting reflects Durand's third and last style of landscape painting. The perspective is fairly deep and detail is cut to a minimum. Rather than a moralistic vision of nature's grandeur or a precise study of natural forms, it is a more subjective and suggestive view of no particular place. While it demonstrates a continued fascination in and love for the landscape, it also shows the comfortable response to all aspects of the land by a man who has spent a lifetime looking at nature and no longer seeks a natural phenomenon, great or little, to move him.

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