Landscape with Sheep

Landscape with Sheep was inspired by the countryside around Robert S. Duncanson’s home in Cincinnati. He painted domestic scenes of farmland to emphasize the beauty and perfection of nature and its relationship to man. In this image he created a gentle landscape bathed in soft pinks and yellows to create an intimate, enticing view. Scenes like this would have been popular with nineteenth-century Americans, who felt cut off from nature as more and more land was taken by industry.

About the painting

Particulars

In the same room · Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 13A, Smithsonian American Art Museum

On the same theme · Mountains

Yes, receiving visitors

What it shows

In the catalog

Sources

Still Life with Fruit and Nuts

Landscape with Shepherd

Landscape with Cows Watering in a Stream

Landscape with Campsite

Landscape with Family by Lake

Vale of Kashmir

River Scene

Loch Long

Gold Mining, Cripple Creek, 1929

Sunset Scene, ca. 1875-1885

Hudson River at Cold Spring, 1861

Landscape with Family by Lake, 1858

Dorchester 1856, 1856

Landscape with Farm and Mountains, 1832

Kayser's Pond, Maine, n.d.

Half Dome and Moon, Yosemite Valley, 1960

Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944, printed 1960s

Clear Weather with a Southerly Wind, 1829 - 1833

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1830/33

Landscape with Sportsman and Dog, c. 1653

The Oxbow, 1836

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863

Tahitian Shore [recto], c. 1900