Genre
Rural
The countryside is where painting goes to find labour and the seasons. The rural scene runs from idealised pastoral to unflinching record — the sower, the harvest, the herd at evening — and its great question has always been whether to flatter country life or to show its real weather and its real work.
Key artists
Works
Washerwomen
Calling the Cows Home
Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
Traveling Warriors Stopping at a Farm
Memorial painting
Hunting Scene
Marion Feasting the British Officer on Sweet Potatoes
The Golden Age
The Banks of the Seine at Conflans
The Interrupted Sleep
A Huntsman and a Peasant Woman by the Isar River with a View of Munich
The Old Castle
Cider
The Natchez
Springtime
The Route Nationale at Samer
The Fountain
Honfleur: Calvary
Repairing the Bridge
Drawing the Eel
A Woodland Road with Travelers
Shepherd's Idyll
Village Scene, Grasse
Gathering Wood
Haymakers at Montfermeil
Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory
Una escena de la Inquisición
A Bog with Peat Cutters. Høsterkøb, North Zealand
Laden Donkeys and Ploughing, Tomb of Djar
Weaning the Calves
The Road from Moret to Saint-Mammès
First Steps
The Ropewalk in Edam
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
竹取物語|The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
A Shepherdess and Her Flock
Camille Monet on a Garden Bench
Gathering Olives at Tivoli
At Lake Garda
Rowing Scene: Crowds Watching from the River Banks
Mishap at the Ford
School Time
The Grave of William Penn
Roadside Cottage
Child Wearing a Red Scarf
Ralph Wheelock's Farm
En jagt af kongelige personer
The Large Tree
New Year's Day in a Village at Stone Lake
Blessing of a Yacht on the Belon River
Deceased Being Towed in a Boat, Tomb of Rekhmire
Amusements in Kyoto in the Four Seasons
Roundel
Illustrated Legends of the Origins of the Kumano Shrines (Kumano engi emaki)
Twilight
明/清 佚名 人物故事圖 卷|Family Visit
Snake Charmer at Tangier, Africa
The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey
A Peasant with a Bird
Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)
Road in the Woods
Horse Race at Kamo
Shepherd with a Flock of Sheep
En færge over Gudenåen
The Windmill
The Landing of Columbus
Mount Vernon
Siegfried and the Rhine Maidens
The Cornell Farm
Et gadekær. Maglebylille
Swans in Central Park
The Hamlet of Optevoz
Syrians Bringing Horses, Tomb of Rekhmire
Women Carrying Faggots
宋紫山筆 嵐に鶏図|Rooster in a Storm
Cows being Watered at a Village Pond. Brofelde, Zealand
The Italian Brigand's Wife
Environs of Fontainebleau: Woodland and Cattle
Puppeteer
The Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals (Sanjūrokkasen)
Choosing the Dinner
Birthplace of the Artist
Bridge over a Cascade
Krishna and Balarama Approaching Mathura
Summer
Krishna and Balarama Taking the Cattle Out to Graze, from a Bhagavata Purana
Morning in New England
In the Woods
Festival of Insects
The Wheat Field
Durham, Connecticut
The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake
Radha and Krishna Caught in a Storm
View of the Village of Eemnes
Figures in a Garden
Footpath near Herlufsholm, Zealand
Udsigt mod Roskilde fra et husmandssted
Springtime in Hals, Jutland
Watching the Hunt in Aranjuez
Mother and daughter
The Nation Is in Danger, or the Enrollment of Volunteers at the Place du Palais-Royal in July 1792
Brickmakers Getting Water from a Pool, Tomb of Rekhmire
Untitled
The Curious Little Girl
Cow in a Barn
Aqueduct in Ruins
Castles in Spain (Chateaux en Espagne)
Horses
Hohlweg im Winter
Prize Bull
Sunset on the River
Boathouse, Winter, Harlem River
Hunting Scene with a Pond
The Old Westover House
Henri Camille, Chevalier de Beringhen
Man with a Hoe
Weary Wayfarers
The Great Windmill and the Rainbow
The Races
Auvers (Washerwomen)
Solitude
Bare Knuckles
Young Peasant Girls Resting in the Fields near Pontoise
Picking Cotton
The Quarry of Monsieur Pascal near Nanterre
The Stone Breaker
Budd Doble Driving Goldsmith Maid at Belmont Driving Park
Picnic after the Hunt
The Gift of the Fishermen
The Red School House
Abraham Clark and His Children
Flax Scutching Bee
Repast in a Garden
Gathering Lilies
Sketch of a Cottage Yard
A Plow Horse in a Field
The White Horse
The Exhumation
The Levite at Gibeah
Antelope Shooting - Assinneboine
The Ponte Salario
Arab Encampment
Rip Van Winkle Awakening from his Long Sleep
Singerie: The Picnic
Sisters in Red
The Barnyard
Election Scene, Catonsville, Baltimore County
Dancing Round the Maypole
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Maharana Jagat Singh II Hunting
Sultan and Musicians
Declaration of Love
The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
The deceitful wife returns to her terrace after caressing her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Cottage by the River with Washerwomen
The Elephant of Maharana Jai Singh of Mewar (r. 1680–98) Catches a Horse by the Tail
The three suitors again begin to quarrel among themselves for the hand of the devotee’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night
Study for "Bathers at Asnières"
The origin of music from a fabulous bird of India which had seven holes in its beak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night
Friends of Krishna, folio 163 from a Bhakti Ratnavali of Vishnu Puri
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Section of an Illustrated Tale of Genji Poetry Contest
The painting made by the vizier of the emperor of China for the queen of Rum, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-ninth Night
Emperor Yao Visiting Yu Chonghua
The lover’s son makes an elephant of the pastry dough carried by the unfaithful wife and puts it in her basket, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Jai Singh III of Jaipur (r. 1818–1835) Riding
Raja Ram Chand of Amber (r. 1667–88) Hunting Wild Boar
Bridge at Poissy (Pêcheurs à ligne)
The Troubadour
A Family of Tartars
The Emir slays the snake after giving it shelter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-fifth Night
Vintage Scene
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Pollard Willow
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Cossack Camp, 1813
Looting of a village
Officers and other Civic Guardsmen of the V District in Amsterdam under the command of Captain Cornelis de Graeff and Lieutenant Hendrick Lauwrensz
The Kedawong Sugar Mill near Pasuruan on Jawa
Bridge at Ipswich
The Artist's Wife with the Family Caravan
The Ruins of Brahehus near Jönköping, Sweden
Tea-Party in Mytishchi near Moscow
Bird on a Branch
De Handelskom in Brugge
Olive Picking
Poppy Field (Giverny)
Sugar Mill on Jawa
Snowfall on a village beside a frozen canal
Dish
Fish Market
Railroad Crossing, The Berkshires
Artillery on Maneuver
Chapel of Saint Joseph, Saint-Tropez
Mill along a River
Rural labours or Spring
The blind Musician
The Crockery Vendor
Una desgracia en montería
Card Players
Frequently asked questions
What is Rural?
Rural is a setting in painting. The countryside is where painting goes to find labour and the seasons.
How many Rural works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 6,356 public-domain Rural works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Rural artists?
Key Rural artists in the collection include Thomas Eakins, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot and Edgar Degas.