Genre
Exterior
The open-air setting is painting stepped outside — into courtyards, streets, terraces, and the unbounded light no studio can reproduce. It is the register that the plein-air painters chased, convinced that a scene observed in its own air carries a truth no reconstructed interior can.
Key artists
Works
A Dance in the Country
Roman Girl at a Fountain
White Mules on a Bridge
The French Comedians
Macomb's Dam Hotel
Brother Philippe's Geese
The Maid in Armor on Horseback (Joan of Arc series: III)
View of the Seine
Study of Two Figures
Figure in Hammock, Florida
Nourmahal
The Church at Gloucester
A Syce
A Man Mounting a Horse
Abduction of Rukmini: Krishna Tied the Hands of Rukma, from a Bhagavata Purana
Entrada triunfal de don Juan José de Austria (?)
Young Woman on a Veranda
The Longshoremen's Noon
The Bullfight
The Germans Arrive
The king of Bahilistan offers his daughter to the King of Kings, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night
Juggler
A Warrior Mounting a Held Horse: Saindhava Ragaputra of Shri, from a Chamba Ragamala
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Draupadi Rescued from Abduction, from a Mahabharata
Habbaza meets Bashir under a tree, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fourth Night
On a Terrace
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
A feast for Babur hosted by his half-brother Jahangir Mirza in Ghazni in May 1505, from a Babur-nama (Memoirs of Babur)
A page from a Punishment series: Punishment for murder
The third suitor strikes the devotee’s daughter and thus restores her to life, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night
El parque del Retiro con paseantes
Doña Berenguela coronando a su hijo don Fernando
Japanese Drawing
Aegean Islanders in the Tomb of Rekhmire
Officers of the militia of departmetn XIX in Amsterdam under the command of Cornelis Bicker and Frederick van Banchem, ready to receive Maria de' Medici in 1638
Exchange of Fire on the Vaartse Rijn near Jutphaas
Pilgrimage in the Roman Campagna
Elephants in a circus
Majo with a Guitar
La prudente Abigail
Untitled
Arlésiennes (Mistral)
Sancho IV
Wittiza, visigothic's king
The taking of a stronghold
Boudewijn van Heusden (?-870) and his wife Sophia receiving homage from the legate of King Edmund
Cadets Lined up in front of the Het Zeerecht Building in Amsterdam
Dutch Troops Occupied the Presidential Palace
Jacob Meyer-Heine
Mounted Trumpeters of Napoleon's Imperial Guard
The Caliph of Constantine
すだれ貝|The Curtain Clam
The Midwife Taking Leave of the girl from Andros. From Terence´s Andria
Maharao Chattar Sal (reigned 1758–64) of Kota in a Palanquin
Count Demetrius de Palatiano in Suliot Costume
Su Dongpo Riding a Donkey
The bag of gold which he received for the slave girl being stolen in a mosque, the young man of Baghdad tears his cloths and is about to fling himself into the Tigris, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night
Feast where Vishnu decides he will incarnate as King Dasharatha’s sons, from Chapters 14–15 of the Bala Kanda (Book of Childhood) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)
Augustus building the port of Miseno
The Kite
The Strolling Players
La Torre de las Damas in the Alhambra, Granada
El descanso en la marcha
El pan nuestro de cada día
Roman Gladiators with Wooden Swords
El derecho de asilo
Conquest of Mexico. Reception of Moctezuma
El cadáver de Álvarez de Castro
Untitled
Prince Józef Poniatowski on the “Szuma” mare from Sanguszka stud farm
Agrippina with the ashes of Germanicus
Valentinus Is Taken Prisoner
The Batavians Besiege the Roman Army Regiments at Vetera,
Uzbek woman in Tashkent
Peasant Filling a Glass
Merry Company by a Fountain
Fru Lina Frølich med solhat
En kristen og en tyrkisk ridder kæmper til hest
Tordenvejr i udkanten af en by
The Market Place in Priverno
An angel appears to the shepherds
Company at a Palace
A Colonnade
Batalje mellem danske og svenske under Kalmarkrigen 1611-1613
The Sense of Smell
En tilfrossen sø med skøjteløbere, til venstre ses en by i mellemgrunden
Et sjællandsk hestemarked
View of a Eastern Harbour
Italian Woman
Szene um einen römischen Kalkofen (zugeschrieben)
Gefecht an einer Schanze
Reitergefecht gegen Türken
The Dismissal of Hagar and Ishmael
Familie des Darius
Theseus und Ariadne
Bepackter Schimmel
Bucht bei ruhiger See
Türkengefecht
Reitergefecht
A Cossack
Bullfight
La farsa de Ávila
The Heroine of Peralada
Entrance to an Inn in the Praestegarden at Hillested
Guzmán el Bueno
Majo with a Guitar
Gladiators Fighting
Dos pescadores uno con caña y otro sentado
Baptism
The Storming of Ofen 1686
Ansicht eines Säulenganges im Tempel der Diana zu Spalato
Petrus und Johannes heilen den Lahmgeborenen im Tempel
Sentinel the Croat
View of the Strada Nuova against the Giardini Pubblici in Venice
Lasset die Kindlein zu mir kommen
Miracle of St Paul on the Island of Malta
Turk. From the journey to Constantinople
Caricature of Jan Wasilewski /?/
Fishmongers in the port
Tartat – Gurzuf. From the journey to Crimea
Entry of Henry of Valois to Kraków, sketch
Jan Zamoyski at Byczyna, sketch
Eastern genre scene under a palm tree
Fragment of buildings at the seaside. From the journey to Constantinople
Woman knitting a garter
Old woman in snow
Generous alms
Wacław's farewell to Maria
Scene in an Arab village
Demor – Bedouin women. From the journey to Palestine
Study for Prophets
The Continence of Scipio
Nothing But Cheerful Looks Followed the Bat
Love's Melancholy
Iskander Comforts the Dying Darius
Daniel Saving Susanna, the Judgment of Daniel, and the Execution of the Elders
African Chief
Phineas and the Sons of Boreas
Race Track
Euretta Rathbone
Summer at Campobello, New Brunswick
Two Architectural Studies
Playing Old Soldier
Scene in Mexico City
The Fort of Antibes
Soldiers at a Breach in a Wall
General Francis Marion Inviting A British Officer to Share His Meal or The Swamp Fox
Mother and Child in a Boat
Inger in a White Blouse
Chinese Emperor (Hsi-yu t'u)
Playing Soldier
Bhaavata Purana (4 of 4 illustrations)
Morning Ride
At the Nile
Instruction in Perspective
The Generosity of Scipio
An Italian Contadina and Her Children
The Maas in Winter with the Huis Te Merwerde, Dordrecht
Beggars in Samarkand
Saint Martin Dividing His Cloak (triptych, left wing)
The Triumph of Saul (sketch)
The Twelve Months of the Year (Los doce meses del año)
Arab Soldier Seated by a Doorway
A Mounted Cavalier
A Young Lady
View of Rhenen
Terrace with a Colonnade
The Great Mosque of Kairouan – Tunis. The Cycle: "From the Travel to Tunis"
An Embassy Building in Pera
Standing Philosopher and Two Other Figures
On the Beach - At Berneval (Sur la plage - a Berneval)
Ex-Libris pour "L'Ensorcelée" (Bookplate for "L'Ensorcelée")
Women Leaving the Church at Ani
A Druids' Ceremony
Son and Donkey
The Stoning of Naboth
Monument of Philopappos
Military Parade
A Couple Seated on the Beach with Two Dogs
A Village Street in Northern Italy
The Landing of the Dutch Expedition Party in New York
Choisissez vos chambres
Mr. Way and Mr. Booth
Study of Four Horsemen
The Villa Madama, Rome
Four Women at Trouville
Sunlit Wall Under a Tree
Four Fishwives on the Beach
Studies of Women by the Park Railing
Poilu Acknowledging German Soldier
Arch Rock, Kagosima Bay, Japan
Village Scene
Woman with Parasol
Two Scouts
Frascati, Architectural Study
A Versailles juillet 1919
Studies of a Man and Horse Cart
A Bishop Blessing a King
Isola del Lazaretto Nuovo
Frequently asked questions
What is Exterior?
Exterior is a setting in painting. The open-air setting is painting stepped outside — into courtyards, streets, terraces, and the unbounded light no studio can reproduce.
How many Exterior works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 1,318 public-domain Exterior works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Exterior artists?
Key Exterior artists in the collection include Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.