Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century
Posted by Neil Gordon on Mon, Apr 11, 2011 @ 04:57 AM
I have just visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The museum has an exhibition called Room with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century. Here is the description from the museum:
This exhibition focuses on the Romantic motif of the open window as first captured by German, Danish, French, and Russian artists around 1810–20. These works include hushed, sparse rooms showing contemplative figures, studios with artists at work, and window views as sole motifs. The exhibition features some thirty oils and thirty works on paper by, among others, C.D. Friedrich, C. G. Carus, G. F. Kersting, Adolph Menzel, C.W. Eckersberg, Martinus Rørbye, Jean Alaux, and Léon Cogniet. Loans to the exhibition have come from museums in Germany, Denmark, France, Austria, Sweden, Italy, and the United States.
I thought that I may find some paintings with drapery treatments due to the title and description of the exhibit, which I did. Below are a few of the paintings. Enjoy...
Georg Friedrich Kersting (German, 1785–1847)
Woman Embroidering, 1811
Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Goethe Nationalmuseum
Georg Friedrich Kersting (German, 1785–1847)
In Front of the Mirror, 1827
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Martinus Rørbye (Danish, 1803–1848)
View from the Artist's Window, 1825
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Adolph Menzel (German, 1815–1905)
The Artist's Bedroom in Ritterstrasse, 1847
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie
Franz Ludwig Catel (German, 1788–1856)
A View of Naples through a Window, 1824
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
Attributed to Martin Drolling (French, 1752–1817)
Interior with View of Saint-Eustache, ca. 1810
Musée Carnavalet Histoire de Paris
Georg Friedrich Kersting (German, 1785–1847)
Young Woman Sewing by Lamplight, 1823
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Neue Pinakothek, Munich