Rivers in Art
Commerce, border, mirror, and metaphor — rivers organize landscapes and cities alike, from the Seine of the Impressionists to the Sumida of Edo printmakers.
976 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download
The Strange Thing Little Kiosai Saw in the River
John La Farge, 1897
The Red Bridge
Julian Alden Weir, 1895
모래밭에 내려앉는 기러기 조선|平沙落雁圖 朝鮮|Wild geese descending to sandbar
Unidentified artist, late 15th–early 16th century
View of Heidelberg
Jan Brueghel the Elder, ca. 1588–89
The Gopis Plead with Krishna to Return Their Clothing: Folio from "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana
Master of the "Isarda" Bhagavata Purana, ca. 1560–65
Heart of the Andes
Frederic Edwin Church, 1859
Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Georges Seurat, 1884
Arques-la-Bataille
John Henry Twachtman, 1885
Nocturne (Nocturne: The Thames at Battersea)
James McNeill Whistler, 1878
View on the Columbia, Cascades
Carleton E. Watkins, 1867
Black Cañon, From Camp 8, Looking Above
Timothy H. O'Sullivan, 1871
The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull)
Thomas Eakins, 1871
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
Thomas Cole, 1836
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham, 1845
New York from the Heights near Brooklyn
William Guy Wall, ca. 1820–23
No. 88. Wingdams below Winona, Minnesota
Henry P. Bosse, 1889
The Source of the Loue
Gustave Courbet, 1864
The Mouth of the East and West Lyn, Lynmouth, North Devon
Henry Pollock, 1856
Nile, 1904 (from Sketchbook)
Mary Newbold Sargent, 1904
Nile, 1904 (from Sketchbook)
Mary Newbold Sargent, 1904
Picquigny
Frits Thaulow, 1899
River Scene (Columbia _______?) (from Sketchbook)
Albert Bierstadt, 1890
Ipswich Town, or Harbor Scene
Arthur Wesley Dow, ca. 1893–95
Gray Weather, Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat, ca. 1886–88
Mouth of Wisconsin River
Henry P. Bosse, 1885
The Hudson River, from the Transparencies series (N137) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco
W. Duke, Sons & Co., late 1880s
The Little Putney, No. 1 (Little Putney Bridge)
James McNeill Whistler, 1879
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[Yosemite National Park, California]
Carleton E. Watkins, ca. 1878
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[Yosemite National Park, California]
Carleton E. Watkins, ca. 1878
The Wye and Symond's Yat. From Rocklands
Francis Bedford, 1870s
Autumn Meadows
George Inness, 1869
The Great Mississippi Steamboat Race–From New Orleans to St. Louis, July 1870–Between the R.E. Lee, Captain John W. Cannon and Natchez Captain Leathers–Won by the R.E. Lee, Time: 3 Days 18 Hours and 30 Minutes; Distance 1210 Miles.
Currier & Ives, 1868–78
Tennessee
Alexander H. Wyant, 1866
Vue de Saïgon (Feuille No. 1)
Emile Gsell, 1866
Vue de Saïgon (Feuille No. 3)
Emile Gsell, 1866
"Rounding a Bend" on the Mississippi – The Parting Salute
Currier & Ives|Frances Flora Bond Palmer, 1866
Battersea Reach
Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1863
The Dyer's Boat (Bas-Meudon)
Félix Bracquemond, ca. 1868
The Steam Boats
Charles-François Daubigny, 1861
Viaduc de la Voulte
Edouard Baldus, 1861 or after
Banks of the Nile at Cairo
Francis Frith|Francis Frith and Company, ca. 1857, printed 1870s
Interior of Woods with Small Stream (from Cropsey Album)
William Trost Richards, 1854
The Wharfe, Yorkshire
John Dillwyn Llewelyn, 1853–56
View of New York from New Jersey
Asher Brown Durand, ca. 1850
The Hudson River Valley near Hudson, New York
Henry Ary|American Painter, ca. 1850
Burnside, Fife / Island in the Almond River
David Octavius Hill|Robert Adamson|Hill and Adamson, 1843–47
Sumidagawa Mimeguri Hana Zakari no Kei
Utagawa Hiroshige II
Houses at Sorrento
Thomas Hartley Cromek, mid-19th century