Bedroom Paintings: Calm Famous Works for Above the Bed (page 4)

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

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The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Alfred Sisley, 1872, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne, 1872 The Met

View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant, Alfred Sisley, 1876, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant, 1876 The Met

Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun, Alfred Sisley, 1894, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley Sahurs Meadows in Morning Sun, 1894 The Met

The Road from Versailles to Louveciennes, Alfred Sisley, probably 1879, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley The Road from Versailles to Louveciennes, probably 1879 The Met

Gray Weather, Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, ca. 1886–88, oil on canvas

Georges Seurat Gray Weather, Grande Jatte, ca. 1886–88 The Met

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge, Canaletto, 1730s, oil on canvas

Canaletto The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking South toward the Rialto Bridge, 1730s The Met

The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right, Canaletto, 1730s, oil on canvas

Canaletto The Grand Canal, Venice, Looking Southeast, with the Campo della Carità to the Right, 1730s The Met

Warwick Castle, Canaletto, 1748, oil on canvas

Canaletto Warwick Castle, 1748 The Met

Haystacks, Morning, Eragny, Camille Pissarro, 1899, oil on canvas

Camille Pissarro Haystacks, Morning, Eragny, 1899 The Met

Sea and Cliffs, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, ca. 1885, oil on canvas

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Sea and Cliffs, ca. 1885 The Met

Allée of Chestnut Trees, Alfred Sisley, 1878, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley Allée of Chestnut Trees, 1878 The Met

The Seine at Bougival, Alfred Sisley, 1876, oil on canvas

Alfred Sisley The Seine at Bougival, 1876 The Met

Verdant green fields roll in undulating waves back alongside a road in this horizontal landscape painting.

Vincent van Gogh Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, 1890 National Gallery of Art

A man and woman stand in a sunny field near a line of cone-shaped haystacks under a massive blue sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout.

Camille Pissarro Landscape, Ile-de-France, 1873 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto two girls or young women with light skin sitting close to us in a green, grassy field in this square landscape painting.

Camille Pissarro Young Peasant Girls Resting in the Fields near Pontoise, 1882 National Gallery of Art

From a low vantage point, we look up a steep, rocky mountainside at a towering mountain peak in the distance in this nearly square landscape painting.

John Singer Sargent Simplon Pass, 1911 National Gallery of Art

A young woman with flushed, peachy skin stands on a rocky shoreline with a fishing net slung over one shoulder in this horizontal painting. Her body faces us, and she looks off and down to our right.

Winslow Homer A Light on the Sea, 1897 National Gallery of Art

Between us and a river lined with buildings on the far bank in the distance, tall willow trees nearly span the height of this horizontal landscape.

Claude Monet The Willows, 1880 National Gallery of Art

Lush treetops give way to a body of water and a hill in this loosely painted horizontal landscape.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir View of Monte Carlo from Cap Martin, c. 1884 National Gallery of Art

From high up, we look down and out at a river with seven ferries and barges, the waterway lined with buildings on the bank to our right, in this loosely painted, horizontal landscape.

Camille Pissarro The Louvre, Afternoon, Rainy Weather, 1900 National Gallery of Art

This painting displays an outdoor scene with a large tree to the left and a low horizon with a few buildings and what look like boats floating on blue water on the right.

Camille Corot Souvenir of Terracina, 1864, reworked slightly later National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a port-side town along a canal, with a church across the water from us in this horizontal landscape painting. A bright blue sky with billowing white, pink, and gray clouds fills the top two-thirds of the painting.

Canaletto Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Molo, Venice, 1742/1744 National Gallery of Art

A row of spire-like structures of different heights is silhouetted in azure blue against a soft pink, yellow, peach, and lavender-purple sunset and reflected in a rippling river in this nearly square landscape painting.

Claude Monet The Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1903 National Gallery of Art

Across a grassy field, a row of buildings and two trees line the horizon, which comes about halfway up this nearly square landscape painting.

Paul Cézanne Landscape near Paris, c. 1876 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a man riding a white horse away from us on a dirt road winding through a sun-drenched, rocky landscape in this horizontal painting.

Camille Corot A View near Volterra, 1838 National Gallery of Art

A waterway flanked by low banks curves away from us in front of a band of rolling hills in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. The water is created with wide strokes of white, ice blue, or the muted jewel tones of the hills.

Paul Gauguin Brittany Landscape, 1888 National Gallery of Art

We look across a strip of tall grass and flowers at a river that winds into the distance in this loosely painted, horizontal landscape.

Claude Monet Banks of the Seine, Vétheuil, 1880 National Gallery of Art

The rounded, feathery canopies of trees are mirrored in the placid surface of a river in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible dashes and strokes. The largest tree is to our right of center.

Claude Monet The Seine at Giverny, 1897 National Gallery of Art

We look down onto a wide, bustling, tree-lined avenue filled with buildings, people, and horse-drawn carriages in this horizontal painting.

Camille Pissarro Boulevard des Italiens, Morning, Sunlight, 1897 National Gallery of Art

A wide river cuts through a loosely painted, sunlit landscape in this almost square painting.

Alfred Sisley The Banks of the Oise, 1877/1878 National Gallery of Art

This painting depicts a scene where a winding path on the bottom left leads into a wooded area.

Alfred Sisley The Road in the Woods, 1879 National Gallery of Art

A row of structures and a massive weeping willow tree line the clay-orange riverbank opposite us in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is painted loosely with long, visible brushstrokes.

Paul Cézanne Banks of the Seine at Médan, c. 1885/1890 National Gallery of Art

We look across a glimmering river toward docks, about a dozen small boats, and a mustard-brown, boxy building under a bridge that crosses the width of the canvas in this horizontal landscape painting.

Claude Monet Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day, c. 1876 National Gallery of Art

A light-skinned man and woman stand looking at each other, surrounded by blooming flowers and lush green trees in this square landscape painting.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Picking Flowers, 1875 National Gallery of Art

Painted in mostly in jewel tones of topaz and aquamarine blue, and sage, spring, and pine green, a meadow is enclosed by a wooden fence, against a landscape of gently rolling hills under a vibrant sky in this horizontal painting.

Alfred Sisley Meadow, 1875 National Gallery of Art

Pale beige, angular houses cluster at the center of the horizontal landscape painting. The hilly, rocky landscape around and below the houses is painted with cool blues and greens, and warm ivory and caramel brown beneath a pale blue sky.

Paul Cézanne Houses in Provence: The Riaux Valley near L'Estaque, c. 1883 National Gallery of Art

We look across rolling, bright green pastures and honey-brown farmland to a cluster of buildings nestled beyond a copse of trees, along the horizon in this horizontal, stylized landscape painting.

Paul Gauguin Landscape at Le Pouldu, 1890 National Gallery of Art

An arched bridge faintly materializes in a haze of soft turquoise blue and mint green in this horizontal landscape painting. The bridge has four arches under a flat deck, and it extends off each side of the canvas.

Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge, London, at Dusk, 1904 National Gallery of Art

We look across a river at a bridge that spans the center of this horizontal landscape, which is painted entirely with broad, visible brushstrokes in pastel colors.

Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge, London, at Sunset, 1904 National Gallery of Art

An ice- and powder-blue sky swirled with faint peach takes up the top two-thirds of this landscape painting.

Alfred Sisley First Snow at Veneux-Nadon, 1878 National Gallery of Art

A small complex of white buildings with red-tile roofs are engulfed in a patchwork of lush, green farm fields over rolling hills in this nearly square painting.

Camille Pissarro Landscape at Les Pâtis, Pontoise, 1868 National Gallery of Art

View of Pirna with the Fortress of Sonnenstein, Bernardo Bellotto, c. 1760, oil on canvas

Bernardo Bellotto View of Pirna with the Fortress of Sonnenstein, c. 1760 Art Institute of Chicago

Mill of Pont Maupuit, Armand Guillaumin, c. 1900, oil on canvas

Armand Guillaumin Mill of Pont Maupuit, c. 1900 Art Institute of Chicago

Entrance to the Port of Honfleur, Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1863–64, oil on canvas

Johan Barthold Jongkind Entrance to the Port of Honfleur, 1863–64 Art Institute of Chicago

Wooded Landscape with Cottage and Horseman, Meindert Hobbema, 1663, oil on canvas

Meindert Hobbema Wooded Landscape with Cottage and Horseman, 1663 Art Institute of Chicago

Travelers in Hilly Countryside, Aelbert Cuyp, c. 1650, oil on wood

Aelbert Cuyp Travelers in Hilly Countryside, c. 1650 Cleveland Museum of Art

Wooded and Hilly Landscape, Jacob van Ruisdael, 1660s, oil on canvas

Jacob van Ruisdael Wooded and Hilly Landscape, 1660s Cleveland Museum of Art

Valley of the Sédelle at Pont Charraud: White Frost, Armand Guillaumin, c.1903–1911, oil on fabric

Armand Guillaumin Valley of the Sédelle at Pont Charraud: White Frost, c.1903–1911 Cleveland Museum of Art