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Asher Brown Durand (American, 1796-1886), Forenoon, 1847. Oil on canvas. New Orleans Museum of Art, Gift of Fine Arts Club of New Orleans.
Asher B. Durand preferred the “unadorned landscape,” exemplified by the inner-relationship between man and nature, the real as opposed to the idea. Forenoon is closely related to Durand’s 1845 painting, The Beeches (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art). In both paintings the bare tree trunks lead the spectator into the painting. Throughout the 1840s, Durand continued to experiment with the composition of beeches and to emphasize the trees’ trunks as a special feature of his paintings. Forenoon was one of a pair of paintings commissioned by the wealthy New Orleans banker James Robb. After first being exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1847, the painting hung in the entrance hall of the Robb mansion on Washington Avenue until 1859, when it was sold with the estate.
