Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La pêche (Fishing) c.1862–1863 Oil on canvas, 76.8 x 123.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Patterned after elements in landscapes by Peter Paul Rubens, the present painting gives currency to Delacroix‘s recommendation to Manet: “Look…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) En bateau (Boating) 1874 Oil on canvas, 97.2 x 130.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet summered at Gennevilliers in 1874, often spending time with Monet and Renoir across the Seine at Argenteuil, where Boating…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Vaprio d’Adda 1744 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By carefully staging the sunlight hitting the facades rising above the Adda River, Bellotto picks out the north Italian villages of…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Nymphenburg Palace, Munich c.1761 Oil on canvas, 68.4 x 119.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Nymphenburg Palace (Munich)
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) La pesca delle perle (Pearl Fishers) 1570–1571 Oil on slate, 127 x 104 cm Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Femme lisant (A Woman Reading) 1869–1870 Oil on canvas, 54.3 × 37.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the seventy-two-year-old Corot showed A Woman Reading at the Salon of 1869, the critic Théophile Gautier praised…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Charing Cross Bridge, Brouillard sur la Tamise (Charing Cross Bridge: Fog on the Thames) 1903 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Between 1899 and 1901, Monet visited London three times, for a…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Seine à Lavacourt (The Seine at Lavacourt) 1880 Oil on canvas, 98.425 x 149.225 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This painting was based on sketches made outdoors and then probably executed within the studio. Monet painted…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Seine à Asnières (The Seine at Asnieres) 1873 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 55.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Asnières-sur-Seine (France)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Seine à Rouen (Seine at Rouen) 1872 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg See also: • Rouen (France)