Mountains in Art

Hokusai's Fuji, the Hudson River School's peaks, Chinese literati mist — mountains served as both national symbols and meditations on human smallness.

1,332 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download

해질녘 산사의 종소리 조선|煙寺暮鍾圖朝鮮|Evening bell from mist-shrouded temple (left); Autumn moon over Lake Dongting (right)

An Gyeon, ca. 1450–1500

元倪瓚虞山林壑圖軸|Woods and Valleys of Mount Yu

Ni Zan, dated 1372

北宋傳屈鼎夏山圖卷|Summer Mountains

Qu Ding, ca. 1050

「富嶽三十六景　神奈川沖浪裏」|Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32

모래밭에 내려앉는 기러기 조선|平沙落雁圖朝鮮|Wild geese descending to sandbar

Unidentified artist, late 15th–early 16th century

Heart of the Andes

Frederic Edwin Church, 1859

元緙絲須彌山曼陀羅|Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru

A Gorge in the Mountains (Kauterskill Clove)

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1862

View on the Catskill—Early Autumn

Thomas Cole, 1836–37

清　王翬等　康熙南巡圖　（卷三: 濟南至泰山）　卷|The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai

Wang Hui, datable to 1698

Mountain Valley with a Plateau

Hercules Segers, ca. 1625–30

같은 해에 태어난 관리들의 친목 모임 조선|同庚契會圖朝鮮|Gathering of government officials

Unidentified artist, ca. 1551

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

Albert Bierstadt, 1863

The Lake of Zug

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1843

Cider Making

William Sidney Mount, 1840–41

"Krishna Holds Up Mount Govardhan to Shelter the Villagers of Braj", Folio from a Harivamsa (The Legend of Hari (Krishna))

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow

Thomas Cole, 1836

Corsica, 1904 (from Sketchbook)

Mary Newbold Sargent, 1904

Missilonghi from Patras (from Sketchbook)

Mary Newbold Sargent, 1904

Scylla, 1904 (from Sketchbook)

Mary Newbold Sargent, 1904

Rocky Inlet (from Sketchbook)

Albert Bierstadt, 1890

Mountain Landscape (from Sketchbook)

Albert Bierstadt, 1890

View of Mount Baker (from Sketchbook)

Albert Bierstadt, 1890

View of Mount Baker (from Sketchbook)

Albert Bierstadt, 1890

Mountain Sketch (from Sketchbook X)

William Trost Richards, 1885

In the Mountains (from Sketchbook X)

William Trost Richards, 1885

Mont Blanc Seen from the Massif, Les Aiguilles Rouges

Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1874

Catskills, 1871 (from Sketchbook)

Daniel Huntington, ca. 1870

Shawangunk Mt., Catskills, 1871 (from Sketchbook)

Daniel Huntington, ca. 1870

Gate of the Highlands, Cornwall, 1871 (from Sketchbook)

Daniel Huntington, ca. 1870

Distant View of the Cedars of Lebanon

Francis Frith, ca. 1857

The Watzmann seen from the North-East, and Some Sketches of a Mountain; verso: Sketch of the Church of Sankt Bartholomä at the Königsee at the foot of the Watzmann Seen from the East

August Heinrich, 1820–22

冨嶽三十六景　凱風快晴|South Wind, Clear Sky (Gaifū kaisei), also known as Red Fuji, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

Katsushika Hokusai, ca. 1830–32