Tag: Art

La Maison de La Crau (1888)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Maison de La Crau (The Old Mill) (F 550, JH 1577) 1888 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 53.975 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In February 1888, Vincent van Gogh left the cold, dreary winter in…

The Potato Eaters (1885)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Potato Eaters (De aardappeleters) 1885 Oil on canvas mounted on panel, 73.9 x 95.2 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F 78, JH 734) Test of mastery The potato eaters is the most ambitious painting of Van Gogh’s…

The Potato Eaters (1885)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Potato Eaters (De Aardappeleters) 1885 Oil on canvas, 82 x 114 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0082-JH0764 Nuenen, April-May 1885 Van Gogh saw the Potato Eaters as a showpiece, for which he deliberately chose a difficult…

Portrait of the Artist’s Mother (1888)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, Anna van Gogh (F 477, JH 1600) 1888 Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 32.4 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena In September 1888, Van Gogh, living in the south of France, received from…

La Musique aux Tuileries (1862)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Musique aux Tuileries (Music in the Tuileries Gardens) 1862 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 118.1 cm National Gallery, London Portraits included in the painting: Image: The National Gallery, London 1. Édouard Manet (1832-1883) 2. Comte Albert de Balleroy (1828-1872) 3. Champfleury…

Le Chemin de fer (1873)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Chemin de fer (The Railway, Gare Saint-Lazare) 1873 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 111.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington The Gare Saint-Lazare, in 1873 the largest and busiest train station in Paris, is unseen in this painting.…

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le déjeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) 1863 Oil on canvas, 207 x 265 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Rejected by the jury of the 1863 Salon, Manet exhibited Le déjeuner sur l’herbe under the title Le Bain…

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (1563)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Landscape with the Flight into Egypt 1563 Oil on panel, 37.1 x 55.6 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In this captivating work, Pieter Bruegel depicts the biblical story of the Virgin Mary, Joseph and their infant son…

Head of an Old Farmer’s Wife (c.1560-1565)

Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) Head of an Old Farmer’s Wife c.1560–1565 Oil on oak, 22 x 18.4 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Such studies of facial expressions, known as tronies, served to capture a fleeting moment of powerful emotion and its…