Bateau de Blanchisseuses sur la Seine (1887)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Bateau de Blanchisseuses sur la Seine (The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières) 1887 Oil on canvas, 19.05 × 26.99 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières exemplifies…

Cocotiers au Bord de la Mer, St. Thomas (1856)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Cocotiers au Bord de la Mer, St. Thomas (Coconut Palms by the Sea, St. Thomas) 1856 Oil on canvas, 26.67 × 34.93 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond This is one of several pictures Pissarro painted of…

Le Quai du Pothuis à Pontoise (1872)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Quai du Pothuis à Pontoise (The Quai du Pothuis in Pontoise) 1872 Oil on canvas, 45.09 × 55.25 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Views of Pontoise, a northwestern suburb of Paris, were among Pissarro’s most…

Sur la plage de Boulogne (1868)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Sur la plage de Boulogne (On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer) 1868 Oil on canvas, 32.39 × 66.04 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond As early as 1863, Manet’s submissions to the Salon were either rejected by the jury…

Sunflowers (1888)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Sunflowers (F 454, JH 1562) 1888 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm National Gallery, London ‘The sunflower is mine’, Van Gogh once declared. Soon after his death he became known as the painter of sunflowers, an…

Les Grandes Baigneuses (c.1894-1905)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Les Grandes Baigneuses (Bathers) c.1894–1905 Oil on canvas, 127.2 x 196.1 cm National Gallery, London Around 200 of Cézanne’s works depict male and female nude bathers, either singly or in groups, in a landscape. The earliest dates from…

La mort de Sardanapale (1844)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La mort de Sardanapale (The Death of Sardanapalus) 1844 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 92.6 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) La Mort de Sardanapale, esquisse 1826–1827 Musée du Louvre, Paris     Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Mort de…