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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.

Link:

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