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Top 16 Landscape Paintings of All Time

by YPB Team5 votes

Fog, wheat, waves, snow and a burning warship. Every one of these turned a view out of a window into an argument about painting.

  1. The Starry Night — ranked #11
    The Starry Night
    Van Gogh's 1889 night sky over a village, painted from an asylum window.
    1000pts
  2. The Great Wave off Kanagawa — ranked #22
    The Great Wave off Kanagawa
    Hokusai's woodblock wave with Mount Fuji behind it.
    812pts
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  3. The Avenue at Middelharnis — ranked #33
    The Avenue at Middelharnis
    Hobbema's 1689 Dutch road running straight at the horizon.
    812pts
  4. The Hay Wain — ranked #44
    The Hay Wain
    Constable's 1821 cart in a Suffolk millstream.
    812pts
  5. Mont Sainte-Victoire — ranked #55
    Mont Sainte-Victoire
    Cezanne's Provencal mountain, painted more than sixty times.
    789pts
  6. The Water Lily Pond — ranked #66
    The Water Lily Pond
    Monet's green Japanese bridge at Giverny, 1899.
    750pts
  7. The Hunters in the Snow — ranked #77
    The Hunters in the Snow
    Bruegel's 1565 winter valley, one of a cycle of the months.
    671pts
  8. Rain, Steam and Speed — ranked #88
    Rain, Steam and Speed
    Turner's 1844 train crossing a bridge through weather.
    670pts
  9. Impression, Sunrise — ranked #99
    Impression, Sunrise
    Monet's 1872 view of Le Havre harbour at dawn.
    520pts
  10. Boulevard Montmartre at Night — ranked #1010
    Boulevard Montmartre at Night
    Pissarro's wet Paris street seen from a hotel window, 1897.
    520pts
  11. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog — ranked #1111
    Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
    Friedrich's figure on a rock, back to the viewer, about 1818.
    428pts
  12. View of Toledo — ranked #1212
    View of Toledo
    El Greco's storm-lit Spanish city, about 1600.
    428pts
  13. Among the Sierra Nevada — ranked #1313
    Among the Sierra Nevada
    Albert Bierstadt's vast 1868 American West.
    323pts
  14. Isle of the Dead — ranked #1414
    Isle of the Dead
    Bocklin's 1880 cliff island, repainted five times on demand.
    200pts
  15. The Fighting Temeraire — ranked #1515
    The Fighting Temeraire
    Turner's warship towed to the breaker's yard at sunset, 1839.
    0pts
  16. The Oxbow — ranked #1616
    The Oxbow
    Thomas Cole's 1836 bend in the Connecticut River, half storm and half farmland.
    0pts

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Comments

Turner painted the Fighting Temeraire in 1839, and Monet studied him during the London years. Landscape judged as its own category: https://youpick.best/articles/monet-ranked-many-ways

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