Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Pont de Passy et la Tour Eiffel (The Pont de Passy and the Eiffel Tower) 1911 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Lines and planes converge at the center of…
Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Sant’Antonio di Padova con Gesù Bambino (St. Anthony of Padua and the Child Jesus) 1767–1769 Oil on canvas, 225 x 176 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) wears a Franciscan habit and meditates…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Rainy Day, Boston 1885 Oil on canvas, 66 × 121.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “I am never tired of observing [people] in every-day life…. Humanity in motion is a constant study to me.” —Childe Hassam…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Les côteaux de l’Hermitage, Pontoise (The Hermitage at Pontoise) c.1867 Oil on canvas, 150.3 x 200 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York The view represented here is a winding village path at the base of a cluster of houses…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Little Street (Het Straatje, Delft) c.1658 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 44 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam This is an unusual painting in Vermeer’s oeuvre, and remarkable for its time as a portrait of ordinary houses. The composition is…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Beggars (The Cripples) 1568 Oil on panel, 18.5 x 21.5 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The real meaning of the scene, in particular the meaning of the motif of fox tails (a motif dear to…