Bedroom Paintings: Calm Famous Works for Above the Bed (page 15)

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

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A two-masted ship with sails furled has been pulled onto a beach as dozens of people bustle on and around it in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted and many details are indistinct throughout.

Eugène Boudin Return of the Terre-Neuvier, 1875 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a coastal scene with a rocky tan cliff on the left side extending down to the blue sea. The horizon is in the middle of the painting, with a bright, slightly cloudy blue sky above the sea.

Eugène Boudin Washerwomen on the Beach of Etretat, 1894 National Gallery of Art

This is a painting depicting several ships on a stretch of water. The horizon is situated in the lower third of the painting, creating a vast expanse of sky above.

Eugène Boudin Ships and Sailing Boats Leaving Le Havre, 1887 National Gallery of Art

A dozen men, women, and children walk, stand, or sit on a waterside wharf that spans this horizontal painting. A jetty stretches into the distance at a right angle, starting to the left of center. Dozens more people pack the jetty.

Eugène Boudin Jetty and Wharf at Trouville, 1863 National Gallery of Art

The painting depicts a seascape. The horizon is visible in the bottom third of the composition, with several ships floating on the water, including a large sailing ship to the left of center.

Eugène Boudin Coast of Brittany, 1870 National Gallery of Art

Twenty men, women, and children sit, stand, or stroll along a sandy beach beneath a bright, cloud-filled sky in this horizontal landscape painting.

Eugène Boudin Figures on the Beach, c. 1867/1870 National Gallery of Art

About two dozen men and women sit in straight-backed, wooden chairs gathered along a sandy beach near low, gently breaking waves with sailboats floating in the ocean beyond in this horizontal landscape painting.

Eugène Boudin Beach Scene at Trouville, 1863 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a seascape with large sailing ships and smaller vessels. To the right of center is a large ship with several tall masts and many billowing white sails.

Fitz Henry Lane New York Harbor, 1852 National Gallery of Art

Twigs of a magnolia tree with light green, glossy leaves and three cream-white blossoms lie on a sapphire-blue cloth in this horizontal still life painting.

Martin Johnson Heade Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth, c. 1890 National Gallery of Art

Lion on the Watch, Jean-Léon Gérôme, c. 1885, oil on wood panel

Jean-Léon Gérôme Lion on the Watch, c. 1885 Cleveland Museum of Art

The Wood Chopper, George Inness, 1849, oil on canvas

George Inness The Wood Chopper, 1849 Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaving the Oasis, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1880s, oil on wood panel

Jean-Léon Gérôme Leaving the Oasis, 1880s Cleveland Museum of Art

A dilapidated cottage nestles among leafy trees next to a winding dirt road in this square landscape painting. The dirt road runs from the bottom center of the painting into the distance.

Meindert Hobbema Hut among Trees, c. 1664 National Gallery of Art

We look out across a band of broad, craggy boulders at an ocean bay dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The tops of the flat boulders are caramel brown in the sunlight and darker, rust-brown shadows down the sides.

William Stanley Haseltine Narragansett Bay, 1864 National Gallery of Art

The painting shows a coastal landscape from an elevated point of view. A structure resembling a thatched-roof cottage is on the right, partially obscured by the rolling green hills that take up the bottom right area of the painting.

Henri Moret The Island of Raguenez, Brittany, 1890/1895 National Gallery of Art

The painting depicts a coastal scene. A rocky shore in warm tones of orange, brown, red, and purple is closest to us, with two boats and a simple structure visible near the center of the painting.

Henri-Edmond Cross Calanque des Antibois, 1891/1892 National Gallery of Art

We look out onto a landscape with low, grassy hills to the left, a lake to the right, and a brick building in the center distance below a sky filled with towering white clouds in this horizontal painting.

John Constable Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816 National Gallery of Art

Women Picking Olives, Vincent van Gogh, 1889, oil on canvas

Vincent van Gogh Women Picking Olives, 1889 The Met

About three dozen men and women sit, stand, or stroll along a sandy beach beneath a sunset-streaked sky in this horizontal landscape painting.

Eugène Boudin The Beach at Villerville, 1864 National Gallery of Art

Roiling, churning waves breaking against a patch of a sandy beach fill most of this wide, horizontal landscape painting. The water deepens from aquamarine blue to teal, slate, and midnight blue amid clouds of ivory-white crests and spray.

Thomas Moran The Much Resounding Sea, 1884 National Gallery of Art

Basket of Flowers, Eugène Delacroix, 1848–49, oil on canvas

Eugène Delacroix Basket of Flowers, 1848–49 The Met

Four women with pale, peach skin, wearing long white dresses, stand or sit on a sunny beach in this wide, horizontal painting. People and carriages are painted as hazy gray silhouettes spread along the beach in the distance.

Winslow Homer East Hampton Beach, Long Island, 1874 National Gallery of Art

In a darkened room, two women sit at a round table near a man who stands leaning against a fireplace mantle, all illuminated only by a soft, yellow light from a ceiling lamp hanging over the table in this nearly square painting.

Claude Monet Interior, after Dinner, 1868/1869 National Gallery of Art

Virgin and Child with Two Angels, Sandro Botticelli, 1485–95, tempera on panel

Sandro Botticelli Virgin and Child with Two Angels, 1485–95 Art Institute of Chicago

The Large Tree, Paul Gauguin, 1891, oil on canvas

Paul Gauguin The Large Tree, 1891 Cleveland Museum of Art

The Hillsides of Méry-sur-Oise, Opposite Auvers, Charles-François Daubigny, 1873, oil on wood panel

Charles-François Daubigny The Hillsides of Méry-sur-Oise, Opposite Auvers, 1873 Cleveland Museum of Art

A narrow strip of beach and then a vivid turquoise stretch of water give way to a towering, hazy sky in this square landscape painting.

Gustave Courbet Calm Sea, 1866 National Gallery of Art

The Beach, Late Afternoon, Winslow Homer, 1869, oil on wood

Winslow Homer The Beach, Late Afternoon, 1869 The Met

A Cottage in the Woods, Meindert Hobbema, c. 1662, oil on canvas

Meindert Hobbema A Cottage in the Woods, c. 1662 Cleveland Museum of Art

Trees on a Rocky Hillside, Asher Brown Durand, c. 1849, oil on canvas

Asher Brown Durand Trees on a Rocky Hillside, c. 1849 Cleveland Museum of Art

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1662, oil on canvas

Johannes Vermeer Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, ca. 1662 The Met

A man with sparse brown facial hair stands in a full-length black robe on a multicolored tiled floor, a white and brown dog behind him.

Giovanni Battista Moroni Gian Lodovico Madruzzo, 1551–52 Art Institute of Chicago

Dr. James Stuart; Mary Campbell Stuart, Gilbert Stuart, c. 1815, oil on wood

Gilbert Stuart Dr. James Stuart; Mary Campbell Stuart, c. 1815 Cleveland Museum of Art

Gnarled, ash-brown roots woven through a muddy, rocky bank and sprays of dark green leaves fill this loosely painted, horizontal landscape. Touches of spring green in the lower right corner suggest ground cover.

John Singer Sargent Wild Olive Tree Roots, Valldemosa, Majorca, 1908 National Gallery of Art

The painting depicts a rocky coastline dotted with color. The horizon is high in the scene, and a strip of pale-yellow sky is visible at the very top of the painting.

Henry Golden Dearth Flecks of Foam, c. 1911/1912 National Gallery of Art

A Goldsmith in his Shop, Petrus Christus, 1449, oil on oak panel

Petrus Christus A Goldsmith in his Shop, 1449 The Met

Glaucus and Nydia, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1867, oil on wood panel

Lawrence Alma-Tadema Glaucus and Nydia, 1867 Cleveland Museum of Art

The Yellow Room, James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1883–84, watercolor and gouache on paperboard

James McNeill Whistler The Yellow Room, ca. 1883–84 The Met

The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, Francesco Guardi, ca. 1765–68, oil on canvas

Francesco Guardi The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, ca. 1765–68 The Met

Roman Interior, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1760, oil on canvas

Jean-Honoré Fragonard Roman Interior, ca. 1760 The Met

Young Woman, Jean-François Millet, 1844–45, oil on canvas

Jean-François Millet Young Woman, 1844–45 Art Institute of Chicago

A broken white and gray birch tree trunk has fallen across a rocky, shallow waterfall at the edge of a dense, deeply shadowed forest in this horizontal landscape painting.

Jacob van Ruisdael Forest Scene, c. 1655 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a group of potted pansies. There is a large basket filled with yellow pansies on the left, surrounded by at least four smaller terracotta pots on the right containing purple, white, blue, and orange pansies.

Henri Fantin-Latour Pansies, 1874 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a young girl sitting in a wooden chair, facing the right. She has pale skin, rosy cheeks, a slightly upturned nose, and long, brown hair put up behind her head. She is wearing a pale green dress and black shoes.

Eastman Johnson The Pets, 1856 National Gallery of Art

The Brioche, Édouard Manet, 1870, oil on canvas

Édouard Manet The Brioche, 1870 The Met

The Ridotto Pubblico at Palazzo Dandolo, Francesco Guardi, ca. 1765–68, oil on canvas

Francesco Guardi The Ridotto Pubblico at Palazzo Dandolo, ca. 1765–68 The Met

The Capture of Samson, Peter Paul Rubens, 1609–10, oil on panel

Peter Paul Rubens The Capture of Samson, 1609–10 Art Institute of Chicago

Across a short stretch of sand in front of us, waves of bottle-green water break over two boulders on the shoreline, with sailboats in the water beyond, in this wide, horizontal painting.

Martin Johnson Heade Rio de Janeiro Bay, 1864 National Gallery of Art