Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La vague verte (The Green Wave) c.1866–1867 Oil on canvas, 48.6 x 64.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When this early seascape debuted at the 1879 Impressionist exhibition, a critic remarked that it was “directly…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Cabine de surveillance des douaniers (Cabin of the Customs Watch) 1882 Oil on canvas, 61 x 81.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Of the fourteen versions of this motif painted at Pourville in 1882, this…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Régates à Argenteuil (Regatta at Argenteuil) 1874 Oil on canvas, 32.4 x 45.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: Argenteuil (France)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Rameurs à Chatou (Oarsmen at Chatou) 1879 Oil on canvas, 81.2 x 100.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Close to us, a woman and two men stand on a grassy riverbank looking out at the expanse…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vue de la côte près de Wargemont en Normandie (View of the Seacoast near Wargemont in Normandy) 1880 Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir was captivated by the seaside…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Personnes sur la plage (Figures on the Beach) 1890 Oil on canvas, 52.7 x 64.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Probably painted in 1890 on the Cote d’Azur in southern France, this sun-filled painting shows…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Mer et falaises (Sea and Cliffs) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 63.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme assise au bord de la mer (By the Seashore) 1883 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 72.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir likely painted this work in his studio, posing his model in a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baie de Naples au matin (The Bay of Naples) 1881 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The corner of the balcony visible at lower left in this composition indicates Renoir’s…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Landscape with a Stone Bridge c.1638 Oil on panel, 29.5 x 42.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Rembrandt painted only a few landscapes, mostly imaginary vistas with mountains in the background. While he might very well have seen the different…