Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Canal en Picardie (Canal in Picardy) c.1865–1871 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 61.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s The Canal in Picardy depicts a wistful, idyllic scene of springtime in the northern French…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les Danseuses (The Dancers) c.1899 Pastel on paper, 62.2 x 64.8 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The incandescent, expressive colors of Edgar Degas’s pastel seem to vibrate off the paper. Applied in layered webs of rhythmic strokes,…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors c.1874 Oil on canvas, 160 × 114.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Outside the National Gallery in London a fashionable tourist couple decides what to see next. The woman points her umbrella imperiously in the…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Crepuscule in Opal, Trouville 1865 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 46 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “Art should be independent of all claptrap—should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear,…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Dans le jardin de Maurecourt (In the Garden at Maurecourt) 1884 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Painted in oil paints with the freedom and spontaneity of a watercolor sketch, In the…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Paysage près d’Ornans (Landscape Near Ornans) 1864 Oil on canvas, 88.8 x 127.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “To paint a land you have to know it. I know my land and I paint it. That undergrowth—it…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Campo Santo, Venice 1842 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 92.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Venice is radiant, if somewhat shabby, in Joseph Mallord William Turner’s view north across the Venetian Lagoon. The city…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 93 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the vast fields of wheat that stretched above Auvers-sur-Oise, a town north of…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Antibes vu de la Salis (Antibes Seen from La Salis) 1888 Oil on canvas, 73.3 × 92.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The shimmering light of mid-afternoon infuses Claude Monet’s painting of the old fortified coastal town…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Les toits du Vieux Rouen, temps gris (The Roofs of Old Rouen, Gray Weather) 1896 Oil on canvas, 72.3 × 91.4 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Camille Pissarro was suffering from a chronic eye infection that kept him…