Asher Brown Durand, 1850 - Landscape—Scene fromThanatopsis - fine art print

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Inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis," this landscape was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1850. The catalogue noted lines from Bryant's poem. After the exhibition, the picture was acquired by the American Art-Union and distributed in the same year to one of its subscribers. Durand's son noted that after this his father got the picture back, repainted parts of it, and sold it to Mr. B.F. Gardner. Durand briefly resumed painting large philosophical landscapes after the death of Thomas Cole, using his works as models. The presence of a funeral, of a farmer's daily work, and of the ruins of man in ancient nature reflects the poem's emphasis on the permanence of the earth and the creation and reversion of man from and to its soils.

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This 19th century work of art Landscape—Scene fromThanatopsis was painted by the romanticist artist Asher Brown Durand. The version of the artpiece was made with the size: 39 1/2 x 61 in (100,3 x 154,9 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the artist as the technique for the artpiece. It can be viewed in in the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection. This modern art public domain piece of art is being included with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911. Furthermore, the artpiece has the following creditline: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911. What is more, the alignment is in landscape format and has an aspect ratio of 3 : 2, which means that the length is 50% longer than the width. The engraver, painter Asher Brown Durand was a North American artist, whose style can primarily be attributed to Romanticism. The painter lived for 90 years, born in the year 1796 in Jefferson, Monmouth county, New Jersey, United States and deceased in the year 1886.

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