Tag: Art

Adam and Eve (1640s)

Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve (The Fall of Man) 1640s Oil on canvas, 184.5 × 221 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Compare: Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve 1642 Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo    

Adam and Eve (1642)

Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Adam and Eve 1642 Oil on canvas, 203.2 x 182.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The leading 17th-century Flemish painter after the deaths of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens distinguished himself from his…

La Agonía en el huerto (c.1590-1595)

El Greco (1541-1614) La Agonía en el huerto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1590–1595 Oil on canvas, 102.2 x 113.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo With his intensely personal style, El Greco (“the Greek”) is one of the most original…

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 Responding to 17th-century Dutch landscape paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan van Goyen, and others, Charles-François…

Enfants sous un arbre

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Enfants sous un arbre (Children Under a Tree) 19th century Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 47 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Though a prolific painter, Honoré Daumier was best known for his printmaking, specifically his lithographed caricatures and…

Avenue de Chantilly (1888)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Avenue de Chantilly (Avenue at Chantilly) 1888 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Paul Cézanne combined classical structural stability with a new sense of respect for the inherent two-dimensionality of painting. By…

Nature morte (1867)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Nature morte (Still Life) 1867 Oil on canvas, 81 x 99.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “Don’t bother trying to look for something new: you won’t find novelty in the subject matter, but in the way you…

Sunlight on the Coast (1890)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Sunlight on the Coast 1890 Oil on canvas, 76.8 × 123.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Winslow Homer skillfully conveys nature’s power with almost violent stabs and dabs of his brush representing waves crashing against rocks. Sunlight…

Rue de Tahiti (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Rue de Tahiti (Street in Tahiti) 1891 Oil on canvas, 115.6 × 88.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The vibrant colors of Paul Gauguin’s painting express his intense reaction to the mysteries of the “new Eden” that…