Wanderers, wayfarers, pilgrims have walked through the countryside, over mountain passes … Some have sought wisdom or spiritual enrichment, others just a bite to eat and somewhere

2. The Wanderer in paintings

4. Wanderers, wayfarers, pilgrims have walked through the countryside, over mountain passes …
Some have sought wisdom or spiritual enrichment, others just a bite to eat and somewhere sheltered to sleep.

6. The lone itinerant man was a significant theme for Hieronymus Bosch, who featured him in at least
two of his triptychs.

7. a wayfarer making his way through life ...
as a pilgrim of life, he tries to stick to the straight
and narrow, resisting sinful temptations
Hieronymus Bosch
The Wayfarer, The Pedlar
Le Vagabond
1490-1510
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

11. The closed triptych ....
a wayfarer,
battered and bruised, this figure makes his way through
life, surrounded by tragedy, crime, and idle entertainment
…
Will he manage to stay on the straight and narrow path?
When opened, the triptych reveals a world of greed
and desire …
Hieronymus Bosch
The Haywain Triptych, exterior, The Pedlar
Le Chariot de foin, revers du triptyque
1510-1516
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

16. Although the great landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age often included staffage (the human
and animal figures) in their works, the wanderer doesn’t return until the Romantic landscapes started
to become popular in the late eighteenth century.

18. When we think of the wanderer as a painterly motif, the famous painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
by Caspar David Friedrich …

19. a young man looks down on an almost impenetrable
sea of ​​fog in the midst of a rocky landscape
… a metaphor for life as an ominous journey into
the unknown
Caspar David Friedrich
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog or Wanderer above the Mist
Le Voyageur contemplant une mer de nuages
1818
Kunsthalle, Hamburg

23. The works by Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Gustav Carus, Thomas Fearnley, Karl Friedrich Schinkel,
Gustave Courbet, Paul Gauguin show how powerful and fruitful the motif of the wanderer was in art
throughout the nineteenth century ...
Passionately in love with nature, they sought out in the beautiful landscapes they painted
a mirror of their own inner self, a metaphor for the search for life's meaning.

24. dazzling white pinnacles of chalk,
a calm sea with sailing vessels
two men and a woman in town clothes gaze
in wonder at the view ...
Caspar David Friedrich
Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
Falaises de craie sur l'île de Rügen
1818
Kunst Museum Winterthur

28. a man and a woman,
dressed in clothes of a century before,
are looking at the moon …
Caspar David Friedrich
Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon
Homme et femme contemplant la Lune
1827
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

31. the pilgrim is walking through the night,
along the dark valley towards the morning star ...
Carl Gustav Carus
Pilgrim in a Rocky Valley
Pèlerin dans une vallée rocheuse
1828-1830
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

35. an pilgrim or wanderer …
Carl Gustav Carus
Rudelsburg Castle
Château de Rudelsbourg
1825
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen

38. a Master of Light and Shadows ...
Fearnley’s finely detailed
landscapes use the wanderer
to draw the viewer in
and make them marvel at seeing
what they could not have seen
in reality.
Thomas Fearnley
Landscape with a Wanderer
Paysage avec un vagabond
1830
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo

44. a steep mountain valley ...
a crevice in which a bell hangs,
a monk sits and prays
and
three walkers
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Felsentor
The Gate in the Rocks
La Porte du rocher
1818
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie

49. Courbet along with his patron,
are immortalized as proud wanderers ...
as symbolic for the journey that people
undertake through life.
Gustave Courbet
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet
The Encounter or Bonjour Monsieur Courbet
1854
Musée Fabre, Montpellier

52. The topic of Gauguin’s painting is associated
with Coubert’s painting Bonjour, Monsieur Coubert
…
the ceremonial mood of Coubert’s work
and
the prosaic and civil character and certain irony
of Gauguin’s painting
Paul Gauguin
Bonjour, Monsieur Gauguin
1889
National Gallery, Prague

56. the Wanderer recumbent on the skyline
and
the natural beauty full of sun light …
Jean-François Millet
Falaises de Gréville
The Cliffs of Gréville
1871
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki

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The Wanderer in paintings
Le vagabond dans la peinture
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