Paintings for the Living Room: Famous Works That Fit Above a Sofa (page 5)

The room where a painting earns its place: big enough to anchor the sofa wall and interesting enough to look at every day.

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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

The top three-quarters of this horizontal landscape painting is filled with roiling, deeply shadowed clouds that tower over a line of buffalo crossing a grassy meadow below.

Albert Bierstadt Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm, 1869 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

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

We look across a palm-tree lined river winding into the distance before a monumental, snow-covered mountain at the center of the composition in this horizontal landscape.

Frederic Edwin Church Tamaca Palms, 1854 National Gallery of Art

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

In a verdant green landscape, a stone castle sits on a tree-lined hill in the distance in front of a high, craggy mountain peak while eighteen armored knights ride toward us along a bridge and path in this horizontal painting.

Thomas Cole The Departure, 1837 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

This painting depicts a street scene from a slightly elevated perspective. A tan dirt road stretches into the distance, lined with white houses on the left side.

Alfred Sisley Marly-le-Roi, c. 1875 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

Landscape, Camille Corot, c. 1870/1875, oil on canvas

Camille Corot Landscape, c. 1870/1875 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 across a lush landscape of olive-green forests lining a glimmering, silvery-blue lake with hills in the deep distance under a pale blue sky in this horizontal landscape painting.

Camille Corot The Moored Boatman: Souvenir of an Italian Lake, 1861 National Gallery of Art

Four people wearing earthy brown gather near a stream that runs through a lush forest carpeted and filled with moss, pine, and sage green trees and undergrowth, interlaced with thin, willowy tree trunks in this horizontal landscape…

Camille Corot The Eel Gatherers, 1860/1865 National Gallery of Art

Dozens of men with several women and a few children gather in pairs or small groups across a sun-drenched plaza in front of a domed church next to a long, pale pink building in this horizontal painting.

Canaletto The Square of Saint Mark's, Venice, 1742/1744 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

We look slightly down onto a group of people gathered along the bank of a river that winds around a copse of tall trees to our left, past a hill to our right, and into the deep distance in this horizontal landscape painting.

Claude Lorrain Landscape with Merchants, c. 1629 National Gallery of Art

Through a golden haze and across an expanse of gently rippling water dotted with boats, ghostly ivory and parchment-white buildings rise along a distant shore in this loosely painted horizontal landscape.

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, 1843 National Gallery of Art

A thin, narrow-shouldered woman holding a black shawl close to her body walks toward us down an alleyway past a pair of men wearing all black in this horizontal painting.

John Singer Sargent Street in Venice, 1882 National Gallery of Art

Towering, sheer cliffs loom to our left, over a sunny beach scattered with boats in this horizontal landscape painting.

Gustave Courbet Beach in Normandy, c. 1872/1875 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

Three women stand on or next to a ladder picking olives in an orchard in this horizontal landscape painting. The women, trees, ground, and sky are all painted with long, parallel brushstrokes that curve and swirl over the canvas.

Vincent van Gogh The Olive Orchard, 1889 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 muted blue, pink, and brown.

Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge, Gray Day, 1903 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

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

We look across a wide, low clearing at a mountain rising beyond rocky hills, which are mostly covered in pines and blazing red and orange autumn trees, in this horizontal landscape painting.

Thomas Cole A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch), 1839 National Gallery of Art

Three women, one man, and a winged child gather near a cave opening within a vast, distant landscape in this horizontal painting. The people are small in scale, taking up the lower left quadrant of the composition, and all have pale skin.

Claude Lorrain The Judgment of Paris, 1645/1646 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

This painting depicts a game being played on a grassy field. The game is taking place in the central green lawn, with buildings in the distance surrounded by trees.

Camille Pissarro Hampton Court Green, 1891 National Gallery of Art

A woman bends double to tend a garden that stretches before us in front of two houses in this horizontal landscape painting.

Camille Pissarro The Artist's Garden at Eragny, 1898 National Gallery of Art

We look down onto a plaza with a sliver of a tall building rising along the left edge of the painting, a row of verdant, green trees to our right, and a row of buildings enclosing the space in the distance in this nearly square landscape…

Camille Pissarro Place du Carrousel, Paris, 1900 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

People and a horse-drawn wagon move along a street lined with buildings on the left and trees on the right in this loosely painted horizontal landscape. The wide street angles from the bottom left of the composition to the middle right.

Alfred Sisley Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil, 1872 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

From a rocky shoreline, we look on several light-skinned people working by the sea with a boat and a net in this freely painted, almost square seascape.

Thomas Gainsborough Seashore with Fishermen, c. 1781/1782 National Gallery of Art

A few pale brown buildings with terracotta red roofs are nestled among hills at the base of a towering, icy-blue mountain in this horizontal landscape painting.

Paul Cézanne Montagne Sainte-Victoire, from near Gardanne, c. 1887 National Gallery of Art

Four boats with low masts sit on a sandy beach next to rocky cliffs under a cloud-filled sky in this horizontal landscape painting. Three of the boats are clustered together near the center of the composition.

Gustave Courbet Boats on a Beach, Etretat, c. 1872/1875 National Gallery of Art

This painting depicts a green landscape under a blue sky. Trees fill the grassy landscape, and a small blue stream winds across the grass on the left side, reflecting light.

Gustave Courbet La Bretonnerie in the Department of Indre, 1856 National Gallery of Art

Green hills roll back to a turquoise-blue sea in this almost square painting. The scene is built with layers of small dots in lavender, lilac, cool blue, warm green, yellow, and peach.

Georges Seurat Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy, 1888 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

Three light-skinned girls hold hands to create a loose ring with their arms extended, in a grassy field in this horizontal painting. All three girls wear white headdresses, ankle-length, long-sleeved dresses, and clogs.

Paul Gauguin Breton Girls Dancing, Pont-Aven, 1888 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

Two sailboats and a rowboat float on a glistening, azure-blue river spanned by a stone bridge to our right in this horizontal landscape painting.

Claude Monet The Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874 National Gallery of Art