Bedroom Paintings: Calm Famous Works for Above the Bed (page 10)

Calm first: paintings with low contrast, soft color and a horizon your eye can rest on.

Showing 433 to 480 of 805 paintings

Alpine Landscape: The Handegg, Switzerland, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1850s, oil on fabric

Jean-Léon Gérôme Alpine Landscape: The Handegg, Switzerland, 1850s Cleveland Museum of Art

Across the Campagna, George Inness, 1872, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on off-white wove paper

George Inness Across the Campagna, 1872 The Met

Olive Trees at Tivoli, George Inness, 1873, gouache, watercolor, and graphite on blue wove paper with colored fibers

George Inness Olive Trees at Tivoli, 1873 The Met

Landscape on a River, Charles-François Daubigny, 1863, oil on wood

Charles-François Daubigny Landscape on a River, 1863 The Met

Sketch for "The Oriental Dream", Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, before 1904, oil on fabric

Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ Sketch for "The Oriental Dream", before 1904 Cleveland Museum of Art

The painting shows a landscape with a large, dark blue mountain in the background. Below the mountain are blocks of color, suggesting fields and structures.

Alexej von Jawlensky Murnau, 1910 National Gallery of Art

View of Lormes, Camille Corot, early 1840s, oil on canvas

Camille Corot View of Lormes, early 1840s The Met

We hover over the bottle-green surface of a river as it rushes toward a horseshoe-shaped waterfall that curves away from us in this horizontal landscape painting.

Frederic Edwin Church Niagara, 1857 National Gallery of Art

In this painting, a person appears to pull a long brown-and-green canoe out of the water and onto a grassy stretch of land. The person wears a hat and a green shirt with brown trousers, and their face is indistinct.

Winslow Homer Sunset, c. 1875 National Gallery of Art

Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, c. 1742–45, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rinaldo and Armida in Her Garden, c. 1742–45 Art Institute of Chicago

The Keeper of the Flock, Jean-François Millet, 1871–74, oil on canvas

Jean-François Millet The Keeper of the Flock, 1871–74 Art Institute of Chicago

Camouflaged Field in France, John Singer Sargent, 1918, watercolor, gouache, graphite, and wax crayon on white wove paper

John Singer Sargent Camouflaged Field in France, 1918 The Met

Fog off Mount Desert, Frederic Edwin Church, 1850, oil on academy board

Frederic Edwin Church Fog off Mount Desert, 1850 National Gallery of Art

The Pool (Memory of the Forest of Chambord), Théodore Rousseau, 1839, oil on wood

Théodore Rousseau The Pool (Memory of the Forest of Chambord), 1839 The Met

Landscape, Distant Village, Charles-François Daubigny, c. 1870/1875, oil on wood

Charles-François Daubigny Landscape, Distant Village, c. 1870/1875 National Gallery of Art

Water Lily Pond, Claude Monet, 1917–19, oil on canvas

Claude Monet Water Lily Pond, 1917–19 Art Institute of Chicago

Vibrantly colored mythical scene depicting people, animals, and dragons in front of mountains.

Tibet Milarepa on Mount Kailash, c. 1500 Art Institute of Chicago

The Wheat Field, George Inness, c. 1875–77, oil on canvas

George Inness The Wheat Field, c. 1875–77 Cleveland Museum of Art

Sunset on the Sea, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Sunset on the Sea, 1872 The Met

A smiling young child holds the latch of an open wooden door as she looks toward a woman to our right in this almost square painting. The woman and child both have pale skin and stand in a bedroom.

Pieter de Hooch The Bedroom, 1658/1660 National Gallery of Art

The image depicts a person standing beside a black horse. The person has long dark hair with feathers, wearing skin trousers, moccasins, a quiver, and a bow slung across their back.

George Catlin A Cheyenne Warrior Resting His Horse, 1861/1869 National Gallery of Art

Study for "The Destruction of Sodom", Camille Corot, 1843, oil on canvas

Camille Corot Study for "The Destruction of Sodom", 1843 The Met

A path enclosed almost entirely with trees stretches into a dense, sun-dappled forest before us in this horizontal landscape painting.

Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña In the Forest, 1874 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a landscape seen from an elevated view. Fields dotted with small trees line a hill that reaches up towards the horizon, below a blue sky full of white, puffy clouds.

Édouard Vuillard Landscape of the Ile-de-France, c. 1894 National Gallery of Art

A wide creek winds between a tree-lined bank to our left and hazy mountains to our right in this horizontal landscape painting. The riverbank curves deeply like a backward capital letter B.

Camille Pissarro A Creek in St. Thomas (Virgin Islands), 1856 National Gallery of Art

Sea Cove, Albert Bierstadt, ca. 1880–90, oil on wood

Albert Bierstadt Sea Cove, ca. 1880–90 The Met

Monte Pincio, Rome, Camille Corot, 1840–50, oil on canvas

Camille Corot Monte Pincio, Rome, 1840–50 Art Institute of Chicago

The painting depicts a rural scene with a wide, cloudy blue sky over a riverbank. On the right there are tall, dark green trees that stretch up to the top of the painting.

Camille Corot River View, 1868/1872 National Gallery of Art

Tall grasses lead back to a body of water and then perhaps a town in this loosely painted, horizontal landscape.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Landscape at Vétheuil, c. 1890 National Gallery of Art

Autumn Meadows, George Inness, 1869, oil on canvas

George Inness Autumn Meadows, 1869 The Met

This painting shows a landscape with a wide river on the right flowing through green hills.

John Frederick Kensett View on the Genesee near Mount Morris, 1857 National Gallery of Art

Cottage by the River with Washerwomen, Camille Flers, 1835, oil on fabric

Camille Flers Cottage by the River with Washerwomen, 1835 Cleveland Museum of Art

This painting shows a slightly elevated viewpoint looking out across a green landscape towards a reflective body of water. In the green sky, the pale-yellow moon glows brightly, illuminating the scene.

Ralph Albert Blakelock Moonlight, 1886/1895 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a scene with several people spaced out across a grassy expanse. The horizon is high in the painting, lined with white structures with red roofs and green trees.

Georges Seurat Figures in a Landscape, c. 1883 National Gallery of Art

We look across the gleaming, forest-green surface of a lake at the foot of tall, jagged mountains in this horizontal landscape painting.

Albert Bierstadt Mount Corcoran, c. 1876-1877 National Gallery of Art

The Aegean Sea, Frederic Edwin Church, ca. 1877, oil on canvas

Frederic Edwin Church The Aegean Sea, ca. 1877 The Met

A young woman reclines and reads a book near a stream that winds through a wooded landscape in this horizontal painting. Painted with rich pine green, trees tower along the riverbanks and fill most of the painting.

Camille Corot Forest of Fontainebleau, 1834 National Gallery of Art

Portejoie on the Seine, Charles-François Daubigny, 1858 or 1868, oil on wood

Charles-François Daubigny Portejoie on the Seine, 1858 or 1868 The Met

Honey-gold sunlight from low along the horizon to our left falls across the copper and bronze-colored canopies of trees that frame our view of a stone church with stained glass windows and ornate spires in this horizontal landscape…

Thomas Cole The Return, 1837 National Gallery of Art

This horizontal landscape is painted with dots and dashes in fresh green, shimmering blue, amethyst purple, shell pink, pale yellow, and cream white against the brown wood of the panel, which is visible throughout.

Georges Seurat Study for "La Grande Jatte", 1884/1885 National Gallery of Art

Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1730–35, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth, 1730–35 Art Institute of Chicago

Sunset near Arbonne, Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1860–65, oil on wood

Théodore Rousseau Sunset near Arbonne, ca. 1860–65 The Met

The Valley of Wyoming, Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1865, oil on canvas

Jasper Francis Cropsey The Valley of Wyoming, 1865 The Met

The painting depicts a landscape with a field, trees, and a dramatic cloudy sky. Grass, rocks, and a group of large trees are visible in the center of the composition.

Jules Dupré The Old Oak, c. 1870 National Gallery of Art

A shaft of warm light from our left pierces a dark wood filled with tall trees in this horizontal landscape painting. The light falls on a stout white trunk and a portion of the moss-green forest floor near the center of the composition.

George Inness Sunset in the Woods, 1891 National Gallery of Art

The Cottage by the Roadside, Stormy Sky, Jules Dupré, c. 1860, oil on canvas

Jules Dupré The Cottage by the Roadside, Stormy Sky, c. 1860 Art Institute of Chicago

Matsuchiyama on the Sumida River, Utagawa Hiroshige, Edo period, 1856, hanging scroll; Ink and color on silk

Utagawa Hiroshige Matsuchiyama on the Sumida River, Edo period, 1856 Art Institute of Chicago

Pine Grove of the Barberini Villa, George Inness, 1876, oil on canvas

George Inness Pine Grove of the Barberini Villa, 1876 The Met