Unknown artist
The Gauja Valley
1891
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-160826
In this panoramic landscape characteristic of 19th century painting, two seemingly contradictory principles of been combined – the informative and the emotional. In this expansive story about the winding Gauja river and the most characteristic species of trees found there, the artist has not become dryly practical for a moment or pettily garrulous. The landscapist has also refrained from focussing attention to concrete objects in the fore or middle ground, choosing instead to draw the viewer’s gaze deeper into the painting, over the frail stream of smoke, which is the only evidence of human p…
Provenance
Latvian National Museum of Art
Registry history
- 1891 — Recorded in the collection of Latvian National Museum of Art
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