#townscape

Novgorod the Great

Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory

• Artist: Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943)
• Date: 1894
• Medium: Oil on canvas glue on cardboard
• Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Description

This painting depicts the enclosed backyard garden of a former priory - a religious building where monks and nuns live under the leadership of a prior - that Maurice Denis purchased in 1914. He transformed the building into a home for his large family and lived there for the last 30 years of his life. A woman dressed in black hangs linens to dry, so that - according to custom - they will be bleached by moonlight. The full moon casts a golden glow over the entire nighttime scene.

Le Bleymard (aujourd'hui rattaché à la commune de Mont Lozère et Goulet), Lozère, 2006.

One of the stops on the Chemin Stevenson (today the GR 70), the route Robert Louis Stevenson followed in his Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Stevenson ate in the hamlet but camped nearby. It was a wise decision to camp, for the Hotel les Genets where we stayed was perhaps the worst hotel I have experienced in France. Sadly when we walked the GR 70 we did not have camping gear and thus needed hotels. All but this one were quite good.

MARCH (1) ON HIGH (clear view…)

With thanks to ‘joepears4’

Malines before the War, Belgium

• Artist: Joseph Edward Southall (British, 1861-1944)
• Date: n. d.
• Medium: Watercolor on paper
• Collection: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England

The horrors of AI, photography version - Big Valley Cafe, Enterprise, Utah, 2020 (above) and Chat GPT below.

Just out of curiosity I asked Chat GPT to “make the defunct and decrepit cafe look good.” After that simple request, in about 3 minutes I was delivered the lower picture.

Photographic evidence has been rendered meaningless!

Kirribilli

• Artist: Sali Herman (Swiss, 1898-1993)
• Date: 1959
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Sydney Australia

La Roche Guyon

• Artist: Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)
• Date: 1885-1886
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Collection: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland

View of Thunder or The Hell Mill (Vue de Tonnerre ou Le Moulin d'Enfer)

• Artist: Émile Bernard (French, 1868-1941)
• Date: 1904
• Medium: Oil on board
• Collection: Private Collection

The Walpoort Bridge in Ghent

• Artist: Pierre François de Noter Walem (Belgian, 1779-1842)
• Date: c. 1835
• Medium: Oil on panel
• Collection: Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Boca de incendios y edificio de adobe encalado después de las recientes lluvias, San Pedro de Atacama, 2001.

Edward Middleditch (British, 1923-1987}, Grazalema, 1962. Charcoal on paper, 65 x 93 cm.

Escultura de un peregrino (Santiago peregrino), Portomarin, Lugo, 2011.

View of the City of Washington in 1807

• Artist: Unknown (French)
• Date: 1897
• Medium: Gouache on paper
• Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Spring

• Artist: Francis Wayland Speight (American, 1896–1989)
• Date: 1930
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

View of a Town

• Artist: Victor Vignon (French, 1847-1909)
• Date: c. 1890
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Collection: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Appenine Landscape

• Artist: Francois Le Moyne (French, 1688-1737)
• Date: c. 1730
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Houses on a Hill (Groupe de Maisons Sur un Coteau)

• Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)
• Date: 1908
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Collection: Barnes Foundation Art Institute, Philadelphia, PA, United States