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Picquigny, Frits Thaulow, oil on canvas; roughly 29 x 36 inches (73 x 92 cm); in the collection fo the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, which has a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. Norwegian painter Frits Thaulow has long been one of my favorite landscape painters. He was an absolute master of…

A stream in spring, Frits Thaulow, oil on panel, roughly 13 x 16 inches (32 x 40 cm) Link is to Christie’s auction house, where the painting was sold at auction in 2011 (full size here). I don’t know the current location of the original, perhaps in a private collection. 19th century Norwegian painter Frits…

Winter, Frits Thaulow Link is to zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadble high-res file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway. What better way to celebrate the Winter Solstice than with a super high-resolution image of a painting I haven’t see before by one of my…

River, Frits Thaulow On Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Bergen Kunstmuseum. I just love the way Thaulow handles the depiction of water, particularly the surface of small streams. I can’t think of anyone who does it better. For more, see my previous posts on Frits Thaulow.

I’m happy to say that after several months of being relegated to the stacks, one of my favorite paintings is back on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Water Mill by Frits Thaulow. I don’t think anyone handles the reflections, translucency and surface motion of small streams better than Thaulow. Unfortunately, the museum’s page…