Can you identify the real-life locations that inspired these famous paintings?
You may know the artist and the painting name, but do you know where it was created?
(Vincent van Gogh, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Given the location is in the title of this painting, this should be an easy one. Where did Vincent van Gogh paint this bedroom scene?
(Caspar David Friedrich, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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One for our subscribers, issue 233 holds the answer to this one. Whereabouts in Germany served as the inspiration for Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog?
(Claude Monet, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Another one for subscribers, this time from issue 230. Where in France did Claude Monet paint his Water Lilies series?
(JMW Turner, public domain, via Wikipedia Commons)
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The UK is set to celebrate the 250th anniversary of JMW Turner this year. In which city did Britain’s most famous painter create this iconic work?
(Hokusai, public domain, via Wikipedia Commons)
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Another easy one (assuming you know the name of this painting), in which Japanese prefecture did Hokusai paint this world-famous piece?
(Georges Seurat, public domain, via Wikipedia Commons)
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Famed for creating pointillism, you’ll no doubt have seen many paintings from Georges Seurat. But where was this scene painted?
(Jean-Léon Gérôme, public domain, via Wikipedia Commons)
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Famed Orientalist painter Jean-Léon Gérôme frequently travelled Europe and the Middle East. But where was this desert scene painted?
(Zhang Zeduan, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Dubbed “China’s Mona Lisa”, Along the River During the Qingming Festival depicts the capital of China during the Northern Song dynasty. But which city is it?
(Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942. From: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty-third Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture. Chicago: 1942)
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Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks immortalised a diner, but in which US city was it located?
(John Constable, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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