Month: January 2021

Augustine Roulin

(1851–1930) née Augustine-Alix Pellicot Augustine Roulin in Art: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Madame Roulin 1888 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis     Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Augustine Roulin 1888 Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’, Winterthur     Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Berceuse 1888–1889 Kröller-Müller…

Paysage avec un cheval (1899)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage avec un cheval (Landscape with a Horse) 1899 Oil on burlap, 70.8 x 44.5 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis In this scene Paul Gauguin depicted a group of huts and a single wild horse against…

Head of a Peasant Woman (1884)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Head of a Peasant Woman 1884 Oil on canvas, 43.8 x 34.6 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Vincent van Gogh always felt deep sympathy for the peasant classes and here tenderly depicted the full, sunburnt features…

Nature morte, panier de pommes (1887)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Nature morte, panier de pommes (Still Life, Basket of Apples) 1887 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 55.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis The bounty of nature is suggested in this view of 10 apples in a…

L’Escalier d’Auvers (1890)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) L’Escalier d’Auvers (Stairway at Auvers) 1890 Oil on canvas, 50 × 70.5 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis The expressive, swirling lines of the foreground road move backward to the center of the composition and join the…

Usines à Clichy (1887)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Usines à Clichy (Factories at Clichy) 1887 Oil on canvas, 53.7 x 72.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Vincent van Gogh depicted an expanse of factories billowing smoke into the air in the gritty, industrial…

Les blanchisseuses (c.1756-1761)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les blanchisseuses (The Laundresses) c.1756–1761 Oil on canvas, 73 x 61.5 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Two women in bright white and yellow form the focal point of this composition. They toil within a stifling atmosphere…

San Pablo (1598-1600)

El Greco (1541-1614) San Pablo (St. Paul) 1598–1600 Oil on canvas, 69.9 x 55.9 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Distinguished by his sword, the Christian apostle Paul holds a folded paper between the tips of his fingers. Its Greek…

La Paix (1860)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) La Paix (Peace) 1860 Oil on canvas, 85.1 x 107.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Two children embrace each other within a pastoral setting in this idyllic view. Adolphe-William Bouguereau, the prominent academic painter, showed “Peace”…

Vue de Bazincourt (1889)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Vue de Bazincourt (View of Bazincourt) 1889 Watercolor on cotton mounted to pulpboard, 20.5 x 25.6 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York SIGNATURE: Signed and dated lower center: “C. Pissarro. 1889.” INSCRIPTIONS: Inscribed lower left: “A mon cher Fred. Souvenir…