Literature Pick #117

On the Northern Ice
by Elia Wilkinson Peattie (1862-1935)
From the 1898 short story collection, The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales.

Hugh Bolton Jones painting

Brittany Landscape
by Hugh Bolton Jones (1848–1927)
1877, oil on canvas, 16.2" x 22"
Jones was an American landscape painter, he was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Luc-Olivier Merson painting

Rest on the Flight into Egypt
by Luc-Olivier Merson (1846–1920)
1880, 28.2" x 50.5"
Merson was a French painter and illustrator, he was born in Paris.

François-Xavier Fabre painting

Saint Anthony of Padua Introducing Two Novices to Friars in a Mountainous Landscape
by François-Xavier Fabre (1766–1837)
1815, oil on canvas, 28.7" x 38.5"
Fabre was a French artist, he was born in Montpellier

Ivan Shishkin & Konstantin Savitsky painting

Morning in a Pine Forest
by Ivan Shishkin (1832–1898) & Konstantin Savitsky (1844–1905)
1889, oil on canvas, 54.7" x 83.8"

Raden Saleh painting

Javanese Temple in Ruins
by Raden Saleh (circa 1811 –1880)
1860, oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard, 41.4" x 73.6"
Saleh was born in Semarang, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia)

Johann Fischbach painting

Berchtesgaden with the Watzmann Mountain
by Johann Fischbach (1797–1871)
1836, 10.6" x 12.9"
Fischbach was an Austrian painter of the Biedermeier style, he was born in Grafenegg.

Ludwig Richter painting

Crossing at Schreckenstein
by Ludwig Richter (1803–1884)
1837, oil on canvas, 45.86" x 61.61"
Richter was a German artist, he was born in Dresden.

Julius LeBlanc Stewart painting

The Ladies Goldsmith at Bois de Boulogne in a car (1897)
by Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855–1919)
1901, oil on canvas
Stewart was an American artist, he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Albert F. Laurens painting

Park Landscape With Young Couple
by Albert F. Laurens (1864–1934)
Oil on Cardboard, 12.2" x 15.4"
Laurens was a French painter, he was born in Lyon.

Joseph Holzer painting

Mountainous Landscape
by Joseph Holzer (1824–1876)
1852, oil on canvas, 39.7" x 45.6"
Holzer was an Austrian painter.

Edward Theodore Compton painting

The Grossglockner
by Edward Theodore Compton (1849–1921)
1880, watercolor, 15.7" x 23.6"
Compton was born in Stoke Newington in London, England.

Franz Ludwig Catel painting

Gulf of Naples with Fishermen and Mussels Gathering
by Franz Ludwig Catel (1778–1856)
1850, oil on canvas, 24.6" x 30.7"
Catel was a German painter, he was born in Berlin.

Jan Brueghel the Elder painting

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee
by Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568–1625)
circa 1596, oil on copper, 10.6" x 13.7"
Brueghel was a Flemish artist, he was born in Brussels.

Mariano Salvador Maella painting

The Last Supper
by Mariano Salvador Maella (1739–1819)
circa 1794, oil on canvas, 14.1″ x 37″
Maella was a Spanish painter, he was born in Valencia.