Moritz Eduard Lotze, Moorland Landscape With Pond

Moritz Eduard Lotze, Moorland Landscape With PondThis late 19th century oil painting by versatile German artist Moritz Eduard Lotze (1809 90) depicts a moorland view with shimmering pond. As the sun sets over a rugged moor, golden embers drift beyond a distant horizon. The sky, a graduated hush of evening tints, punctuated by a scattering of passing clouds. In the middle ground, darkness the scenery obscured in shadow. While, on the right, rising before an orange glow, four trees emerge in

This early-20th-century watercolour by British artist William Hatherell (1855-1928) depicts a loving couple embracing on a balcony before a city at night

One is dated in the lower left and all three are framed

the sky is particularly profound with a large rain cloud giving way to a crack of light blue

A solitary figure

spinning wool from a distaff held under her left arm

she had illustrated Thomas Moore’s Pearls of the East - with her sister producing lithographs

perhaps foxgloves

Mais hélas la belle”

Claude Lorrain (1600-1682)

and known for its extraordinary weather and unusual luminous sunsets

A distant dwelling

The Denver Art Museum is said to own the only Spanish example in the USA