The Eagle's Nest

Landseer seems to have painted this picture in the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland. In 1851 a critic wrote that 'the grand melancholy solitude of the Highlands is well expressed, though the tone of the colouring is too heavy'.

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Dans la même salle · Paintings, Room 82, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum

Sur le même thème · Eagle

Oui, elle reçoit

Ce qu’elle montre

Au catalogue

Sources

Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveler

The Cat's Paw

Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt"

A Deerhound

Lion: A Newfoundland Dog

The Stone Breaker and His Daughter

A Jack in Office

A Naughty Child

Florence Dombey in Captain Cuttle's Parlour, 1888

Sweet Summer Time, 1869

Sketch for 'The Derby Day', 1858

The Lake of Lucerne: Mont Pilatus in the Distance, 1857

Fishing, 1855

The Good Harvest of 1854, 1854

Blackheath Park, 1852

Mountain Landscape with Rocks, ca. 1851

Diorama Exhibition Poster, 1910

The Raven Who Wished to Imitate the Eagle, 1927/1930

The Eagle, the Wild Sow, and the Cat, 1927/1930

The Eagle and the Owl, 1927/1930

The Capitoline Eagle, c. 1601/1602

Vignette for Title Page of Balthasar Cordier, Catena Patrum Graecorum in Sanctum Ioannem, 1630

The Eagle and the Woman at Night, 1938

An Eagle, 1560/1565