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@metmuseum Perhaps this is one reason why weather was so important in their painting.
They also painted extended and extremely detailed views from high points.
View of bleaching fields and Haarlem by Jacob van Ruisdael c. 1670-75
Oil on Canvas
(Mauritshuis)
Village at Night by Rockwell Kent ca. 1950
Oil on Panel
(Monhegan Museum of Art &History, Gift of Remak Ramsay)
Old Houses near St Benedict's Church, Norwich
by Henry Ninham
Oil on Millboard
(Norfolk Museums Service)
Loch Lomond by Gustave Doré 1875
Oil on Canvas
(Saint Louis Art Museum)
Landscape in Scotland by Gustave Doré 1878
Oil on Canvas
(The Walters Art Museum, US)
Meagre Company by Frans Hals & Pieter Codde 1633-7
Oil on Canvas
(@rijksmuseum)
Contrast and Compare:
A still from Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon & Mr and Mrs Andrews by Thomas Gainsborough ca. 1750
Oil on Canvas
(@NationalGallery)
Good Day!
Sneaking a Peek by Peter Fendi 1833
Oil on Panel
(Collection Belvedere)
Good Day!
A Road in Louveciennes by Auguste Renoir ca. 1870
Oil on Canvas
(@metmuseum)
Notre Dame, Paris by Leonard Russell Squirrell 1924
Mezzotint
(New South Wales Art Gallery)