Solitude, Oil Landscape by Joshua Shaw

Solitude, an oil landscape painting, shows a wide wooded valley with a distant mountain under a cloudy sky, with pale water in the middle distance. A reclining figure rests in the shadowed foreground at right, while a tiny figure walks on the dirt path at left, beneath large dark trees framing the view.

Artist

Joshua Shaw

Date

1818

Medium

Oil on canvas

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 1168 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection; the George F. Harding Collection