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Banks, bridges and still water

Rivers and Lakes

Water that runs and water that waits. Eakins’s Max Schmitt resting on his oars in his scull, Homer’s canoe in the Saguenay rapids, snow on Hokusai’s Sumida, Kensett’s Lake George pale and still, Sisley’s Seine at Bougival, Pissarro’s bridge at Rouen on an overcast morning, Kuniyoshi’s river in the rain, and Radha crossing a river in an Indian painting. Hudson River painters, Barbizon and impressionist France, the North, and prints from Japan.

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Six Jewel Rivers from Various Provinces Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857 Picquigny Frits Thaulow, 1899 The Lake at Hakone in Sagami Province (Sōshū Hakone kosui), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei) Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32 View from the Quai d'Orsay Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1854 Lake George John Frederick Kensett, 1869 River Landscape in Evening Seal of Kano Motonobu, 16th century Radha Crosses a River to Interview a Hindu Sage Chokha, ca. 1820 A River in a Meadow Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1840 Pastoral Landscape: The Roman Campagna Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), ca. 1639 Merced River, Yosemite Valley Albert Bierstadt, 1866 An Evening beside Lake Arresø Johan Thomas Lundbye, ca. 1837 The Banks of the Rance, Brittany Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, possibly 1785 Snow on the Sumida River (Sumida), from the series, Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Setsugekka) Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1833 The Pont Neuf Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1849–50 Lake George, Free Study John Frederick Kensett, 1872 The Pond (La Mare) Théodore Rousseau, 1855 The Ford Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée), possibly 1636 A River Glimpse Thomas Doughty, ca. 1843–50 Gudvangen Thomas Fearnley, 1839 Waterfall at Mont-Dore Achille-Etna Michallon, 1818 Ochanomizu in the Rain Utagawa Kuniyoshi, mid-19th century Barges at Pontoise Camille Pissarro, 1876 Hudson River Scene John Frederick Kensett, 1857 Valley of the River Loire Jules Dupré Lago Avernus William Trost Richards, ca. 1867–70 Women Near a River Utagawa Kuniyoshi, ca. 1850 Morning, An Overcast Day, Rouen Camille Pissarro, 1896 Summer Day on Conesus Lake John Frederick Kensett, 1870 A River Landscape Théodore Rousseau, ca. 1845–50 Sketch for View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow) Thomas Cole, 1836 Allée of Chestnut Trees Alfred Sisley, 1878 The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull) Thomas Eakins, 1871 The Trout Pool Worthington Whittredge, 1870 The Seine at Bougival Alfred Sisley, 1876 Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River Winslow Homer, 1905–10 The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne Alfred Sisley, 1872 Autumn Meadows George Inness, 1869 Delaware Water Gap George Inness, 1861