Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Mariana 1851 Oil on mahogany, 59.7 x 49.5 cm Tate Britain, London When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, this picture was accompanied by the following lines from Tennyson‘s Mariana (1830): She only said,…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Conversation in a Park (Gainsborough and his wife?) c.1746–1748 Oil on canvas, 73 × 68 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris An early example of a conversation piece by Gainsborough. Often compared with Gainsborough‘s drawn portrait, from the same…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Venetian Bead Stringers 1880 or 1882 Oil on canvas, 66.99 x 78.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo John Singer Sargent was fond of making studies in watercolor or oil and often sketched the everyday scenes or…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Terrace in the Luxembourg Gardens 1886 Oil on canvas, 27 x 46 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Jardin du Luxembourg | Paris (France)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Jardin de Daubigny (Daubigny’s Garden) 1890 Oil on canvas, 56 x 101.5 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel Compare: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Jardin de Daubigny 1890 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Jardin…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Vocazione di San Matteo (The Calling of St Matthew) 1599–1600 Oil on canvas 322 x 340 cm Cappella Contarelli, San Luigi dei Francesi, Roma
Claudel, Camille (1864-1943) Les Causeuses ou Les Bavardes (The Bavardes or the Loveseats) 1893 Bronze et marbre ou albâtre teinté, 32 x 34 x 24 cm Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Arlésiennes (Mistral) 1888 Oil on jute canvas, 73 × 92 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago One of seventeen canvases that Paul Gauguin completed during a brief and tumultuous visit with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, this powerful…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Maison à Rueil (House at Rueil) 1882 Oil on canvas, 71.5 × 92.3 cm Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin Édouard Manet spent the last summer of his life, already marked by a serious illness, in the country house of the comedy…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Madame Manet dans la serre (Madame Manet in the Conservatory) 1879 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Nationalgalleriet, Oslo See also: • Manet, Suzanne (1830-1906)