Sublime Landscapes Durand Oversize Oblong Silk Scarf

The awesome vista on our oversize silk scarf comes from Asher Brown Durand’s (American, 1796–1886) Landscape—Scene from “Thanatopsis” (1850) in The Met collection. “Thanatopsis,” the Greek word for “meditation on death,” was also the name of a poem by William Cullen Bryant, who perceived death as humankind’s return to nature. As such, Durand’s picture reads like an elegy, guiding the viewer’s eye beyond the earthly terrain and off into the hazy horizon.

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