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Eye Candy for Today: Achenbach’s Snowy Forest


Snowy Forest, Andreas Achenbach

Watercolor, 16×24″ (42x62cm). A little reminder for those of us here in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. that snow can be beautiful.

On Google Art Project. High res downloadable on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf.

Snowy Forest, Google Art Project

Comments

4 responses to “Eye Candy for Today: Achenbach’s Snowy Forest”

  1. Wow! Absolutely stunning. I’m surprised I hadn’t been aware of Achenbach before.

    Thanks Charley, for your continued sharing and insight!

  2. Just gorgeous! You always treat us to the tastiest eye-candy! Thanks!

  3. Andrew and his younger brother, by 12 years, Oswald Achenbach, have been ironically named ‘das A und O der Landschaft’ is ‘The A and O of the Landscape’.
    Envy?
    Typing whilst watching eurosport HD live tennis of the quarter finals Australian Open; I’m with Murray)

  4. If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
    ~Vince Lombardi