Genre
Forest
The forest is the landscape that closes over you. Its painters traded the open horizon for enclosure — the cathedral of trunks, the broken light, the path that vanishes into shadow — making the wood a place of both sanctuary and unease, where the eye can never see all the way through.
Key artists
Works
After the Hunt
Hunting Dogs with Dead Hare
Trees in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris
The lion returns to his territory and sees the monkey conversing with the lynx, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-ninth Night
The Hermit
The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest
The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Hound and Hunter
元？ 佚名 仿李公麟 屈原九歌圖 卷|The Nine Songs: Illustrations to the poems of Qu Yuan (343–277 B.C.)
The Vineyard
Lormes: Goat-Girl Sitting Beside a Stream in a Forest
Krishna's Longing for Radha, from the Gita Govinda of Jayadeva
The lion, suspecting treachery on the part of the monkey, slays him and flees, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-ninth Night
The Great Ant-Eater
Fallen Tree
Woods in Winter
Lion Defending its Prey
Shepherd Boys and Dog Sheltering from a Storm
Antikke ruiner omgivet af træer, i forgrunden en hyrde og nogle geder
Umed Singh of Kota Hunting Lions
Monju as a Child
Tiger Hunt of Ram Singh II
Two Putti
The merchant’s daughter encounters a wolf and bandits on her way to meet the gardener in order to keep her promise, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night
Peafowl and Phoenixes
The gardener seizes and beats a donkey who insisted on braying, while the deer, its companion flees to safety, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-first Night
The hunter throws away the baby parrots, who pretend to be dead, and captures the mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night
A Summer Afternoon
The Hunts of Maximilian: The Stag Hunt (August)
Inde i skoven
Meleager und Atalante
Jagdbeute
The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti, part one
Un fauno
'Mystieke paden': bosgezicht
Silvio and Dorinda
Fighting Stags in a Forest
The Devil and Tom Walker
Squirrel on a Pine Branch
Squirrels on the Chestnut Tree
Woodland Vista
Ivan Tsarevich on the Grey Wolf
The Story of Nastagio Degli Onesti, part two
Hunter loading his rifle
The Boat of the Ideal
En vej i Dyrehaven. Efterår
A Wood near Frederiksborg Castle
A Tree with Several Trunks
Skov ved solnedgang
Summer Afternoon with a Passing Shower. The Deer Park in Jægersborg North of Copenhagen
The Ramparts of Christianshavn. Spring
Grev Otto af Oldenborg og det oldenborgske horn
Lovers
The Interior of a Forest
Shepherds Watering Cattle in a Forest
The Sunken Road in Winter
Räuberüberfall im Wald
Woman in the Garden
Left side addition (since removed) of 'Meleager and Atalante'
Gebirgslandschaft mit Tobias und dem Engel
Mühle im Wald
Waldlandschaft mit Personenstaffage und Architektur
Waldlandschaft mit Engel und Tobias
Jagdbeute mit zwei Hunden
Buchenwald mit Jagdgesellschaft
Luchs mit Beute
Fête in a Park
Kullervo Cursing
Inside the Forest
Midas's Judgement
Der Wasserfall der Ilse auf dem Brocken im Harzgebirge
Brushwood collectors in the Wienerwald
Eichenwald
Rudolf von Habsburg in Lebensgefahr
The Conversion of St. Eustace
Sa Ga Yeath Qua Pieth Tow, King of the Maquas
Ho Nee Yeath Taw No Row, King of the Generethgarick
Departure for hunting, sketch
In the forest (Uhlans’ post)
In the forest
Spearmen; verso, on canvas: sketch of a standing male figure
Stream in the forest
Hunting a wild boar
Deer Hunters in the Woods
Genoveva in the forest seclusion
Fable of the lumberjack
Girl in a forest
After the rain in autumn
In the Woods
Sketch from Nature
Pond in the Woods
Among the Redwoods
Study of Birch Trunks (Scribners')
Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)
First and Best Camp of the Trip
Dry Brook
Sugar Loaf Mountain
Bacchanal at the Spring: Souvenir of Marly-le-Roi
Ischl, Austria
Pine Woods, Magnolia
Summer Night's Dream
Classical Scene
Birches
Woman in a Park
Pool in the Forest
Beech Wood
At the Fountain
William Allen
Path in the Forest
Scene from the Ramayana
Mademoiselle de Mossellmann Riding in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris
In the Forest of Fontainebleau
Celadon and Amelia
Figuren in een park
If the Blind Lead the Blind, Both shall Fall into the Ditch
Birds
Cephalus and Procris
Der Prophet Elisäus verflucht die ihn verspottenden Kinder
Dolly Varden
Snow Maiden
Hochzeitszug
The rest in the deciduous forest
The Boy and the Dryad
Miner's Funeral
Rocks "Panieńskie Skały"
Source
In the Luxembourg Garden
Louis XIV and Mlle. De La Valliere
Vrouwen in een bos
Op drijfjacht
Birth of Adonis
Adam and Eve Hide Themselves
On the Trail
Forest Interior
Twilight in the woodlands
Death of Iphigenia (?)
Duck-shooting in a wood
A Stand of Trees
Sous Bois (L'Entrée du Dormoir)
Angelica and Medoro
A Giant Oak at the Edge of a Forest
Musicians Traveling through a Forest![Intrepid [recto]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/winslow-homer--intrepid-recto--48c5888512186200-w320.webp)
Intrepid [recto]
Tree Trunks
Joan of Arc Hearing the Voices
A French Hussar Leading a Horse
Castle On A Hill (Set for "Sleeping Beauty and the Beast"?)
The Indian Bear Hunter
Elegant Ladies in a Forest Clearing![Clap of Thunder [recto]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/alphonse-legros--clap-of-thunder-recto--5ebb74bfb38e66a9-w320.webp)
Clap of Thunder [recto]
Rapids with Overhanging Branches (verso)
A Stand of Birch Trees![Bare Tree [verso]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/fra-bartolommeo--bare-tree-verso--691ffa617da1e8ff-w320.webp)
Bare Tree [verso]![Tree [verso]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/perry-enoch-wood-jr--tree-verso--696f4264834bd30c-w320.webp)
Tree [verso]
Sketching from Nature
A Woodland Chapel at Evening
Grands Chasseurs--Le Cerf est prêt
Gleaners
Sketch of Trees with a Statue on a Pedestal
The Oval Fountain in the Gardens of the Villa d'Este, Tivoli
Mary Magdalene Praying in the Wilderness
Encounter by the Garden Fence
Tannhäuser
Eighteenth-Century Colonist Preaching to Indians
La Ronde Enfantine
Ruins by a Woodland Stream
In Vaudeville, the Bicycle Rider
Das Schloss am Meer (Castle on the Sea)
A Study of a Tree
The Apparition in the Forest
Prince Charming in the Forest
A Pool in the Forest
Hjorte i en skov
Sunset through Pine Trees
Elijah at the Brook Kerith
Woodland Scene with Gipsies
Woman
The Pathfinder
The Pathfinder
Plants. Study
Reigentanz. Nach Gottfried Kellers «Hadlaub»
Tents at Lake O'Hara
Mondnacht / Versuchung
Pan und Bacchantinnen
The Logger
The Pathfinder
Two Horses in the Forest
Spruce forest
Fentugalon koe aala
Persa
The Meeting of Hetty and Hist
Waldlandschaft mit gestürztem Baum und Jägern
Waldlandschaft mit Hirschjagd
Der stille Waldwinkel
Jaguars and a Crocodile
Old Woman and Boy in a Forest
The Thorny Path
The Boar Hunt
Duel after a Masked Ball
Winterlandschaft mit lagernden Zigeunern
Frequently asked questions
What is Forest?
Forest is a setting in painting. The forest is the landscape that closes over you.
How many Forest works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 794 public-domain Forest works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Forest artists?
Key Forest artists in the collection include Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet and Jean Léon Gérôme.