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Geïnteresseerd in kunst en geschiedenis / interested in art and history. Posts in Dutch and/or in English.
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Camille Monet at the Window, Argentuile - 1873
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January 30, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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Herman Misset, Vinkenbuurtpad 11, tapperij "t Zwaantje (c. 1910-1920). Collectie: Stadsarchief, Amsterdam

#art #watercolour #20thcentury #landscape #pub #Amsterdam #trees
Sand path with wooden fencing on both sides. On the left the building of a pub with sign 'Tapperij slijterij van ouds het Zwaantje wed: W. Daame'. The building is surrounded by trees.
January 29, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Samuel W. Colman, Entrance to Mosque, Algeria (1875). Collection: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca NY

#art #watercolour #gate #mosque #entrance #bluesky #19thcentury
Sunny scene with centre-stage a decorated entrance porch set in a wall which has terracotta rooftiles on top. There are a few steps leading up to the porch which has a horseshoe arch, a decorated panel above the arch and an overhanging roof. On the far left, half of a simple archway can be seen.
January 28, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, Le Havre: Sunset in the Port (c.1832) Collection: Tate Britain, London

#art #gouache #watercolour #harbour #ships #France #19thcentury
Sunset scene of a harbour with the water stretching from centre foreground to the horizon. In the foreground, left and right of the water, many people can be seen. Ships on either side of the harbour, buildings on the right-hand quay.
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Berthe Morisot, The Cage, (1885). Collection: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC

#art #painting #stilllife #birdcage #impressionism #flowers
Still life with a birdcage and a bowl of flowers on a table or shelf. The cage contains four small Chinese porcelain bowls.
January 25, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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Godtfred Rump, Vinterlandskab med en tilfrosset å / Winter landscape with a frozen river (1880). Collection: Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

#art #painting #landscape #winter #snow #ice #bridge
Frozen river meandering from bottom right towards a wooden bridge, connecting wooded areas on both sides. Left foreground two dark tree trunks. On the right-hand side of the river trees and shrubs covered in snow. Beyond the bridge, on the horizon, an indistinct darker hilly area.
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Amaldus Nielsen, Renneholmen i Ny-Hellesund (1912). Collection: Kunstsilo, Kristiansand, Norway

#art #painting #landscape #houses #cliff #sun #water #boat
Summer evening landscape with cliffs against the sky. A few houses and a boathouse in front of the cliff on the right. A small sailing boat in the water in front of the houses. The late afternoon or early evening sunlight falls on the houses and the cliff behind it.
January 23, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Piet Mondriaan, Landschap met wilgen aan het Gein (c. 1903). Collectie: Centraal Museum, Utrecht

#art #painting #landscape #20thcentury #river #trees
Willow trees along the river Gein. Trees leaning from lower right to top left. The small river to be seen behind the trees and a puddle of water in the left-hand bottom corner.
January 22, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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Camille Pissarro, The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning (1897). Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

#art #painting #impressionism #19thcentury #cityscape
Busy road lined with trees
April 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Louis Rémy Mignot, Sunset, Winter (1862). Collection: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.

#art #painting #winter #sunset #church #landscape
Horizon halfway the painting. Below it, flat landscape with snow blanket. Bare trees dotted around and a small stretch of iced over water in the foreground. In the middle distance towards the left four very small figures that are walking (or skating?) towards the church which can be seen on the right against the sky which is coloured red and yellow and also showing through the windows.
January 19, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Keiji Shinohara, Winter Garden (1998). Collection: Milwaukee Art Museum

#art #print #woodcut #20thcentury #winter #branches #leaves
Background: leaves swirling down from top to bottom in graduated blue from darker at the top to paler at the bottom of the print. Overlaying the leaves on the bottom half of the print are black bare branches.
January 18, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Vincent van Gogh, De ophaalbrug in Nieuw-Amsterdam (1883). Collectie: Groninger Museum

#art #aquarel #landscape #19thcentury #bridge #winter #snow #farmhouse
In the foreground from left to right a road covered in snow with slightly to the left a woman walking. Behind the road a stretch of water (probably a canal, although no water or ice can be seen) with central in the scene a drawbridge The road that continues to the horizon from the bridge is lined with trees. Several farmhouses can be seen on the road that runs along the other side of the canal.
January 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Camille Corot, Ariccia with the Palazzo Chigi (1826-1827). Collection: Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switserland

#art #painting #19thcentury #landscape #Italy #shrubs #palace #bluesky #church
The lower half of the picture is filled with a depiction of green shrubs. The top half shows part of the town Ariccia with the Palazzo Chigi on the left and the church of Santa Maria Assunta with its dome and cupola on the right. The white walls of the city stand out against the blue sky.
January 16, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill (c. 1660). Collectie: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

#art #painting #Brasil #landscape #17thcentury #buildings #people #river #palmtree #snake
Tropical landscape with buildings on two sides of a river. In the left-hand foreground greenery with a palm tree and amongst the shrubs a snake and a bird. On the right-hand side buildings with red roof tiles (the mill) and about 20 people. Across the river more buildings and further towards the horizon fields and wooded areas.
January 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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William Andrews Nesfield, Kilchurn Castle (c. 1839). Collection: Wallace Collection, London.

#art #painting #19thcentury #landscape #castle #lake #mountains #cattle
Kilchurn Castle in the centre of the picture. Looming over the castle are the Grampian Mountains. The castle is surrounded on three sides by water (the fourth side cannot be seen in the painting). The sun peaks out between the clouds and lights up the castle walls. In the water, a small fishing boat with two men, one hauling in a net. In the foreground five cows with their feet in the water. On the right a few trees and shrubbery.
January 14, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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The old Cambridge University Library. @theul.bsky.social
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBforBooks 📷 #photography
The entrance to a library, photographed in the early evening, with an amber glow from lights inside, ‘Bibliotheca’ is carved above the door.
January 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Pieter Franciscus Luypen, De ontscheping van tonnen tabak / The unloading of barrels of tobacco (1801). Collectie: Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam

#art #painting #19thcentury #ship #people #cityscape
Quay along a canal with various people unloading, weighing, and removing large barrels by means of a horse and sledge. The stern of a large ship can be seen alongside the quay. The scene is depicted from one side of the canal. Across, on the other side of the canal a bridge, houses and trees can be seen.
January 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Gerrit Groenewegen, De Leuvehaven te Rotterdam (1782). Collectie: Maritiem Museum, Rotterdam

#art #painting #cityscape #harbour #ships #buildings
View of the Leuvehaven in Rotterdam looking towards a bridge and further out towards the river Maas with quays lined with trees and houses on both sides. Foreground: on the left, a barge; on the right, a small rowing boat. At the quay, on the righthand side of the picture, ships are loaded and further on a merchant frigate. People are depicted on the quay and on or near some of the ships. Blue sky with clouds.
January 11, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Ids Wiersma, De schilder Egnatius Ydema aan het werk in de vrije natuur / Painter working en plein air (1908). Collectie: Fries Museum, Leeuwarden

#art #painting #20thcentury #landscape #Friesland #painter
A painter, smoking a pipe, at work, sitting in a field on the edge of a stretch of water. On the left a stack of reed. In the distance a windmill.
January 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Handmade pottery jar, by Jean Bad Moccasin, artist of the Lakota Sioux Nation #WomensArt
Round ceramic vessel with geometric butterfly design as,well as other significant motifs in orange, black and blue
January 10, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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Ben Viegers, Grote Markt in Nijmegen (1920-1930). Collectie: Valkhof, Nijmegen

#art #painting #20thcentury #cityscape #market #buildings #people #churchtower
City square with old houses on the further side of the square, behind them the church tower. On the righthand side the city hall. The rest of what can be seen of the square is filled with fruit and vegetable sellers displaying their wares on carts and on the pavement. Lots of customers milling around.
January 9, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born on this day in 1836.

During a visit to Rome from December 1875 to April 1876, Alma-Tadema collected material for future paintings. He made three studies of parts of the city, including this one in the gardens of the Villa Borghese.

🍃 Detail from WA1966.13.1
An oil painting featuring a weathered stone wall that spans the middle, in the foreground is luscious green grass, behind the wall trees of green and red
January 8, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Aert van der Neer, Winter Scene with Figures Playing Kolf (1655-1660). Collection: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA

#art #painting #17thcentury #winter #ice #landscape #people #skating
Winter scene with central a frozen river. In the foreground left bare trees. A few people standing on the ice and further on people on skates and two men playing a ballgame with sticks (kolf). On the left, behind the trees and besides the water, a village with church. On the right-hand side farm houses.
January 7, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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Anton Pieck, Drie Koningen (1965). Voorplaat Kerstnummer Wereldkroniek 1965. Picture credit: www.antonpieckmuseum.nl/driekoningen/

#art #drawing #print #20thcentury #Epiphany #children #shop
Three children dressed as the Three Wise Men, each carrying a lantern. They are walking in front of a shop displaying sweets in the window. An old woman is looking at the children from behind the shop door.
January 6, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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Carl Skånberg, View of Eriksberg, Stockholm (1880). Collection: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

#art #painting #landscape #19thcentury #winter #snow #windmill
Winter landscape with road leading towards a windmill. A horse and sled on the road. The road is lined on the left by bare trees. On the far left, behind the trees a few buildings. On the right-hand side beside the road a fence and lamppost.
January 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM