Nursery Paintings: Gentle Animals, Gardens and Pale Skies (page 4)

Gentle animals, gardens and skies in soft, bright color.

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This painting displays a young girl sitting, her head and body slightly turned to the left. She has fair skin and light reddish-brown hair tied back with a blue ribbon, a few curls framing her face.

Berthe Morisot Young Girl with an Apron, 1891 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman wearing a floppy, canary-yellow hat and a long white dress stands in a field of spring green in this vertical painting. Brushstrokes and loose dabs of paint are visible throughout.

Vincent van Gogh Girl in White, 1890 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the knees up, a young girl with pale skin, wearing a coral-peach dress, sits facing and looking at us in this loosely painted, vertical portrait. Her knees are angled slightly to our left, and her hands rest in her lap.

Berthe Morisot The Artist's Daughter with a Parakeet, 1890 National Gallery of Art

Mary Cassatt Girl Arranging Her Hair, 1886 National Gallery of Art

Harbor of Boston, with the City in the Distance, Fitz Henry Lane, c. 1846–47, oil on canvas

Fitz Henry Lane Harbor of Boston, with the City in the Distance, c. 1846–47 Cleveland Museum of Art

Honfleur, Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1865, oil on canvas

Johan Barthold Jongkind Honfleur, 1865 The Met

The Island of San Michele, Venice, Francesco Guardi, 1770s, oil on canvas

Francesco Guardi The Island of San Michele, Venice, 1770s The Met

We look across a body of calm water onto a wooden pier, rowboats, sailboats, and a town on the distant shore, all beneath a cloudy sky that takes up the top three-quarters of this horizontal landscape.

Aelbert Cuyp A Pier Overlooking Dordrecht, early 1640s National Gallery of Art

Eleven men, women, and children stand around a freestanding flagpole near a floating dock on a beach in this horizontal landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted, and dozens more people are gathered on the dock.

Eugène Boudin On the Jetty, c. 1869/1870 National Gallery of Art

The painting depicts a busy harbor scene with ships and masts rising into the blue-gray sky. The brushstrokes are loose and impressionistic, in shades of soft grey, brown, and blue, with some pops of red and yellow from indistinct objects.

Eugène Boudin The Trawlers, 1885 National Gallery of Art

Sunset Sky, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Sunset Sky, 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

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

The Dock of Deauville, Eugène Boudin, 1891, oil on wood panel

Eugène Boudin The Dock of Deauville, 1891 Cleveland Museum of Art

This painting shows a harbor with sailing ships displaying countless colorful flags. The ships stretch across the painting horizontally, floating on clear, reflective water.

Eugène Boudin Yacht Basin at Trouville-Deauville, probably 1895/1896 National Gallery of Art

This painting depicts a scene overlooking a calm body of water. A large sailing ship with two tall masts and a dark hull is anchored on the water, its sails tied up. On the left, there are two people in a small, dark rowboat.

Eugène Boudin Ship on the Touques, c. 1888/1895 National Gallery of Art

Connecticut Village (Going to School), Julian Alden Weir, after 1891, oil on canvas

Julian Alden Weir Connecticut Village (Going to School), after 1891 The Met

The Pink Cloud, Henri-Edmond Cross, c. 1896, oil on canvas

Henri-Edmond Cross The Pink Cloud, c. 1896 Cleveland Museum of Art

Two minuscule people stand in the center of an expansive, rugged landscape dusted with snow in this horizontal painting.

Caspar David Friedrich Northern Landscape, Spring, c. 1825 National Gallery of Art

We look across a dark, aquamarine-blue body of water at a bulky, stony outcropping to our right in this horizontal landscape painting.

John Frederick Kensett Beacon Rock, Newport Harbor, 1857 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the waist up, a young girl wearing a slate-gray dress and straw hat stands with her hands clasped in front of her in this vertical portrait painting. The girl has light, peachy skin, and her cheeks are lightly flushed.

Mary Cassatt Child in a Straw Hat, c. 1886 National Gallery of Art

The painting shows a landscape with a calm body of water stretching across the center, beyond a brown bank of rocks and short green grass. A thin tree rises up on the left.

Théodore Rousseau Landscape with Boatman, c. 1860 National Gallery of Art

A pale-skinned boy with round, almost doll-like proportions sits on pointed rocks in front of a pale blue sky in this slightly stylized, vertical painting. The boy’s body and face are square to us.

Henri Rousseau Boy on the Rocks, 1895/1897 National Gallery of Art

A pale-skinned young girl with blond hair, wearing a blue dress, stands in a garden in this vertical painting. The girl and background are painted with blended strokes, giving the scene and especially the girl a soft look.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir A Girl with a Watering Can, 1876 National Gallery of Art

Treetops against Sky, John Singer Sargent, 1909–13, watercolor and gouache on white wove paper

John Singer Sargent Treetops against Sky, 1909–13 The Met

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1760s, oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, 1760s The Met

We look slightly down onto and across a wide, boat-filled river under a cloudy sky at the far bank, which is lined with buildings, in this loosely painted, horizontal landscape.

James McNeill Whistler Battersea Reach, c. 1863 National Gallery of Art

Two pale-skinned little girls sit back-to-back on a sandy beach, almost filling the width of this vertical painting. The girls wear matching pale, ice-blue pinafores over short sleeve, ocean-blue dresses.

Mary Cassatt Children Playing on the Beach, 1884 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman stands close to us with a red schoolhouse in the distance under a sunset sky in this vertical painting.

Winslow Homer The Red School House, 1873 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the lap up, a pale-skinned woman with an oval face and long neck sits facing us in this vertical painting. The portrait is created with areas of mottled colors outlined with black lines.

Amedeo Modigliani Girl in a Green Blouse, 1917 National Gallery of Art

Two Girls on a Lawn, John Singer Sargent, ca. 1889, oil on canvas

John Singer Sargent Two Girls on a Lawn, ca. 1889 The Met

Spanish Landscape, John Singer Sargent, 1879–80, oil on wood

John Singer Sargent Spanish Landscape, 1879–80 The Met

Shown from about the waist up, a woman with pale, peachy skin and dark hair holds a blond, light-skinned child on her lap at a table as they play with several small toys in this horizontal painting.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Child with Toys - Gabrielle and the Artist's Son, Jean, 1895-1896 National Gallery of Art

Child with Blond Hair, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1895/1900, oil on canvas

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Child with Blond Hair, 1895/1900 National Gallery of Art

Shown from the lap up a pale-skinned young girl sits in a grassy landscape in this vertical painting. The girl and surroundings are painted with visible strokes and dashes of mostly vivid greens and blues, which give the scene a soft look.

Camille Pissarro Peasant Girl with a Straw Hat, 1881 National Gallery of Art

The painting displays the upper torso, head, and shoulders of a person wrapped in a light-colored fabric that covers their body and forms a hood around their head. The person appears to be seated, facing slightly towards the right.

Robert Henri Indian Girl in White Blanket, 1917 National Gallery of Art

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 "Kearsarge" at Boulogne, Édouard Manet, 1864, oil on canvas

Édouard Manet The "Kearsarge" at Boulogne, 1864 The Met

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Girl with a Basket of Oranges, c. 1889 National Gallery of Art

A passenger boat, its bright tan sails reflecting the sun, careens among choppy water with at least eight more sailboats and a town along the water’s edge in the distance in this horizontal landscape painting.

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rotterdam Ferry-Boat, 1833 National Gallery of Art

Boats at Berck-sur-Mer, Édouard Manet, 1873, oil on fabric

Édouard Manet Boats at Berck-sur-Mer, 1873 Cleveland Museum of Art

A young girl with pale skin and long brown hair looks at us as she braces a tall, wooden hoop with one hand by her hip in this vertical painting.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Girl with a Hoop, 1885 National Gallery of Art

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Girl with a Basket of Fish, c. 1889 National Gallery of Art

The Golden State Entering New York Harbor, Fitz Henry Lane, 1854, oil on canvas

Fitz Henry Lane The Golden State Entering New York Harbor, 1854 The Met

A fleet of ships gathers in a river lined by trees and buildings in this horizontal painting.

Aelbert Cuyp The Maas at Dordrecht, c. 1650 National Gallery of Art

The painting depicts a harbor scene with several large ships and smaller boats on a wide waterway. To the left and right of center, two large ships are visible, each with multiple tall masts and several sails.

Eugène Boudin Entrance to the Harbor, Le Havre, 1883 National Gallery of Art

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes The Prodigal Son, probably c. 1879 National Gallery of Art

Jean-Honoré Fragonard Young Girl Reading, c. 1769 National Gallery of Art