The Mountain Stream
This large work was painted only two years after Weber immigrated to the United States from Germany. Weber began exhibiting works at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1849 and continued to exhibit there throughout his career. The subject shows a rich, shadowy woodland interior with a stream and a vignette of a solitary hunter at rest with his gun and dog. The landscape conveys the notion of forest interior as natural sanctuary, a primeval cathedral. Many artists of the Hudson River School captured a sense of the divine, envisioning the pristine American landscape as a great new Garden of Eden. The subject of the “primeval forest” was taken up by other painters of the 19th century, most famously by Asher B. Durand. Poet William Cullen Bryant described the primeval forest in “A Forest Hymn”, (1824):The groves were God’s first temples.Ere man learnedTo hew the shaft and lay the architraveAnd spread the roof above them--ere he framedThe lofty vault, to gather and roll backThe sound of anthems; in the darkling woodAmidst the cool and silence, he knelt down,And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanksAnd supplication.
paul weber(1823 – 1916)
Explore the landscapes of Paul Weber, a Hudson River School painter known for his evocative mountain scenes & portraits. Discover his German heritage & influence.
Reading Public Museum(レディング, アメリカ合衆国)
Reading Public Museumでアート、科学、文明を探索しましょう!アメリカの傑作、古代の遺物、そして美しい植物園を発見できます。あらゆる世代が楽しめる、ユニークな文化の目的地です。
作品詳細
- 作品名: The Mountain Stream
- 作家: paul weber
- 制作年: 1850
- 技法: Landscape
- 著作権の状態: パブリックドメイン
- 展示場所: Reading Public Museum
- コーパスの文脈: hudson river school , american wilderness
- カラーパレット: Dark
- 主要な色: Bronze
- キーワード: 19th century painting , dark woodland painting , oil painting technique


