Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) Hunting near Hartenfels Castle 1540 Oil on wood transferred to masonite, 116.8 x 170.2 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The Protestant rulers of Saxony commissioned this animated hunt scene, set near their residence seen in…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Trouville, bateaux de pêche échoués dans le chenal (Trouville, fishing boats beached in the channel) c.1848 Oil on paper on canvas, 21 x 23.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Inondation à Moret (Flood at Moret) 1879 Oil on canvas, 54 x 71.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In the 1870s, the Seine and its tributaries, including the Loing, were flooded several times as a consequence of increased…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) The Bridge of Sighs c.1903–1904 Watercolor on paper, 25.4 x 35.6 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Sargent used multiple techniques to create light and highlights in this work. The most obvious is the application of white impasto…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le Havre, Le Port (Le Havre, The Port) 1884 Oil on panel, 32.4 x 41.1 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York For Boudin, the sky—with its constant cloud motion and ever-changing light—proved a powerful source of inspiration throughout his…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Marée montante à Pourville (Rising Tide at Pourville) 1882 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Inspired in part by Gustave Courbet’s marines of the 1860s, Claude Monet here conveys the choppy, windswept sea…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Venice from the Giudecca 1840 Oil on canvas, 61 x 91.4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Object Type Before photography, oil painting was a primary way of recording views of ancient cities, and many artists…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Bordeaux, le port (Bordeaux, the Harbor) 1874 Oil on canvas, 30.3 x 46.3 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Compare: Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Vue de Bordeaux 1874 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Bordeaux (France)
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) L’Avant d’un Yacht (The Front of a Yacht) 1875 Watercolor on paper, 20.7 x 26.8 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Marine, Orage (Seascape, Storm) 1866 Oil on canvas, 48.7 x 64.6 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown