1850
From the collection of Bucharest Municipality Museum
Dominant colour
Valea Iantrei (Bulgaria) is a 1850 by Carol Pop de Szathmári, held at Bucharest Municipality Museum.
This painting shows a soft, misty valley with rolling hills in the distance. A lone tree stands on the right, its branches bare or lightly leafed. The sky is pale blue with faint, wispy clouds, and the ground looks damp, almost like a reflection of the hills in shallow water. The brushstrokes are loose and sketchy, giving it a quick, almost unfinished feel. The colors are muted—blues, browns, and grays—with no sharp lines. If you like this style, look up impasto next to see how thick paint can create texture.
Carol Szathmari (Romanian: Carol Popp de Szathmari, Hungarian: Szathmáry Pap Károly; 11 January 1812, Kolozsvár – 3 July 1887, Bucharest) was a Romanian painter, lithographer, and photographer of Transylvanian Hungarian…
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