Tag: 1873

Venus Discordia (1873)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Venus Discordia 1873 Oil on canvas, 128.2 x 209.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Born in Birmingham, but of Welsh extraction, Burne-Jones was much admired by early twentieth-century Welsh critics. A friend of William Morris and an associate…

Auvers, Paysage à la charrue (1872-1877)

Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Auvers, Paysage à la charrue (Auvers, Landscape with Plough) 1872–1877 Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 81.5 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)

The Love Song (1868-1877)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Love Song 1868–1877 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 155.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Burne-Jones associated this painting with a refrain from a French folk ballad: “Alas, I know a love song, / Sad or…

Dad’s Coming! (1873)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Dad’s Coming! 1873 Oil on wood, 22.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman holding a baby stands near a young boy who perches in the tipped-up end of a rowboat that has been pulled…

Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (1872-1873)

Scholderer, Otto (1834-1902) Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (Porträt der Frau des Künstlers) probably 1872–1873 Oil on canvas, 31.6 × 40 cm National Gallery, London Scholderer made several portraits of Luise Steurwaldt, whom he married in London on 11 February 1872. Here…

L’été (before 1873)

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) L’été (Summer) before 1873 Oil on canvas, 43.2 × 62.2 cm National Gallery, London The theme of Puvis de Chavannes’s painting is an old one. Images of summer and harvesting can be found in medieval illuminated manuscripts,…

Après la corrida (1873)

Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926) Après la corrida (After the Bullfight) 1873 Oil on canvas, 82.5 × 64 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Mary Cassatt chose a quintessentially Spanish subject, executing this composition of a bullfighter, or torero, in full regalia during an…