Friday, January 1, 2021

À l'aurore - for the first day of the new year, a selection of paintings of sunrise

 
Ostermorgen (Easter Morning), by Caspar David Friedrich, circa 1828-35.
 Sunrise Among the Rocks of Paradise, Newport, by John Ffederick Kensett, 1859.
 Bords de l'Oise à l'aube (Banks of the Oise at Dawn), by Louis Hayet, 1888.
 Soluppgång över taken. Motiv från Stockholm (Sunrise over the Rooftops. Motif from Stockholm), by Eugène Jansson, 1903.
 A Wooded River Landscape at Sunrise with Figures in a Boat, a Village Beyond, Circle of Aert van der Neer, circa mid-seventeenth century.
Before Sunrise, June, by Dwight William Tryon, 1905.
Venice: San Giorgio Maggiore at Dawn, by Joseph Mallord WilliamTurner, 1819.
(The images available online for this watercolor vary quite radically. I hope that here I'm sharing something like the original.)
Juste avant le lever du soleil (Just Before Sunrise), by Camille Corot, circa mid-nineteenth century.
A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt, by Peter Paul Rubens, circa 1635.
 Meules près de Chailly, soleil levant (Haystacks at Chailly at Sunrise), by Claude Monet, 1865.
Gryning över Riddarfjärden (Dawn over Riddarfjärden), by Eugène Jansson, 1899.
Sunrise over the Oka River, by Victor Ivanovich Ivanov, circa mid-twentieth century.
 Forest Sunrise, by Albert Bierstadt, circa second half of the nineteenth century.
New England Sunrise, by John Frederick Kensett, 1859.
Le Lever du soleil (Sunrise), by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), circa 1646-47.
Sunrise in the Woods, by George Inness, 1887.
Capri Sunrise, by Frederic, Lord Leighton, 1859.
 Norham Castle, Sunrise, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, circa 1845.
Das Riesengebirge (The Giant Mountains), by Caspar David Friedrich, circa 1830-35.
Wheat Fields with Reaper at Sunrise, by Vincent van Gogh, 1889.
La Seine à l'aube (The Seine at Dawn), by Charles Angrand, 1889.
 L’Aube (Dawn), by Camille Corot, circa 1865-70.
The Rooftops of Venice, with the Campanile of San Marco and San Giorgio Maggiore, from the Hotel Europa (Palazzo Giustinian) at Sunrise, by Turner, 1840.
Soloppgang i Åsgårdstrand (Sunrise in Åsgårdstrand), by Edvard Munch, circa 1893-94.
La Muse au lever du soleil (The Muse at Sunrise), by Alphonse Osbert, 1918.
Windsor Castle at Sunrise, by Sanford Robinson Gifford, circa 1860.
Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), by Claude Monet, 1872.
By far, the most famous painting of a sunrise, and whose title inspired the name of the Impressionist movement.

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On this first day of this new year, leaving the wretched year of 2020 behind, I wish all of us a much brighter, healthier, and happier 2021.

Solen (The Sun), by Edvard Munch, circa 1910-13.



5 comments:

  1. Beautiful post, just gorgeous. The inspiration is most welcome. Happy New Year to you and G!

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  2. A lot of these beauties are some of my favorites, especially those from Van Gogh, Monet and Munch... Thank you!
    I wish you and yours all the best for the new year.
    Be happy and healthy, and may all good things you wish for come to you and G.

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    1. How sweet of you to say. I wish the same for you and yours, Sim. : )

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