Category: Art

Jalais Hill, Pontoise (1867)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Jalais Hill, Pontoise 1867 Oil on canvas, 87 x 114.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This view of Pontoise, just northwest of Paris, helped establish Pissarro’s reputation as an innovative painter of the rural French landscape. The…

Don Quichotte (c.1868)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Don Quichotte (Don Quixote) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 52.2 x 32.8 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich Compare: Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Don Quichotte et Sancho Panza c.1855 National Gallery, London     Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Don Quichotte lisant 1865–1867 National Museum Wales, Cardiff    …

Deux femmes (1908)

Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Deux femmes (Two Women) 1908 Oil, pastel, sanguine and charcoal on paper, 37.4 x 33 cm Private collection

Garçon dans les fleurs, Jacques Hoschedé (1876)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Garçon dans les fleurs, Jacques Hoschedé (Boy in Flowers, Jacques Hoschedé) 1876 Oil on canvas, 60 x 97 cm National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo During the summer of 1876 Manet visited the small village of Montgeron in…