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We look out over a patchwork of cultivated fields that slope down to our right and back to an ice-blue lake in this nearly square landscape painting. Rectangular fields fill the lower half of the composition in fern green, caramel brown, and golden tan. Sage-colored trees and bushes with dark brown trunks and branches separate the strip of grassy earth closest to us from the fields just beyond, and are scattered like tufts through the landscape. A rocky, slate-gray mountain brushed with lime-green trees that rises along the left edge of the canvas curves around a wedge of the arctic-blue…

Swiss Landscape

Alexandre Calame (Swiss, 1810 - 1864)

c. 1830 · oil on paper on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of Victoria and Roger Sant

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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