All tours · TOUR 12

Faces of Water

A burning fleet and a giant wave, a water mill and fishermen hauling nets: paintings of water.

Rooms 1 and 2 are free for everyone.

From room 3, a Pyeongye subscription opens the rest. Every room has notes on reading its painting.

The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their FleetClaude Lorrain1The Watermill with the Great Red RoofMeindert Hobbema2Perseus and the Origin of CoralClaude Lorrain3Rough WavesOgata Kōrin4Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)Canaletto5Panaromic View of the Bacino di San Marco, Looking up the Giudecca CanalFrancesco Guardi6Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Katsushika Hokusai7Distant View of Niagara FallsThomas Cole8Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for FishJoseph Mallord William Turner9WhalersJoseph Mallord William Turner10Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton WaterJames McNeill Whistler11BoatingEdouard Manet12By the SeashoreAuguste Renoir13The Herring NetWinslow Homer14The Home of the HeronGeorge Inness15
  1. 1The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their FleetClaude Lorrain · ca. 1643Free
  2. 2The Watermill with the Great Red RoofMeindert Hobbema · c. 1665Free
  3. 3Perseus and the Origin of CoralClaude Lorrain · ca. 1671Members
  4. 4Rough WavesOgata Kōrin · ca. 1704–9Members
  5. 5Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)Canaletto · 1741Members
  6. 6Panaromic View of the Bacino di San Marco, Looking up the Giudecca CanalFrancesco Guardi · 1780–93Members
  7. 7Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), also known as The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)Katsushika Hokusai · ca. 1830–32Members
  8. 8Distant View of Niagara FallsThomas Cole · 1830Members
  9. 9Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for FishJoseph Mallord William Turner · 1837–38Members
  10. 10WhalersJoseph Mallord William Turner · ca. 1845Members
  11. 11Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton WaterJames McNeill Whistler · 1872Members
  12. 12BoatingEdouard Manet · 1874Members
  13. 13By the SeashoreAuguste Renoir · 1883Members
  14. 14The Herring NetWinslow Homer · 1885Members
  15. 15The Home of the HeronGeorge Inness · 1893Members
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