Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Une baignade à Asnières (Bathers at Asnières) 1884 Oil on canvas, 201 × 300 cm National Gallery, London This large picture was Seurat’s first major composition, painted when he had not yet turned 25. He intended it…
El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) River Bank in Springtime (F 352, JH 1321) 1887 Oil on canvas, 48.9 × 58.1 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The light, fresh tones and free brush strokes in this painting of the banks of…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont Neuf (The Pont Neuf) 1871 Oil on canvas, 53.34 × 73.03 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Claude Monet returned to Paris in the fall of 1871 after more than a year of exile in…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Seine à Chatou (The Seine at Chatou) 1874 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 63.5 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas “The Seine at Châtou” is among the finest, boldest, and best preserved of Renoir‘s landscapes from…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont d’Argenteuil (The Bridge at Argenteuil) 1875 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires This painting raises some iconographic questions. Generally referred to as Argenteuil Bridge, the painting is…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Fiesta popular bajo un puente (Popular Feast under a Bridge) c.1808–1812 Oil on canvas, 72 x 100.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) La conversione di san Paolo (The Conversion of Saint Paul) c.1544 Oil on canvas, 152.7 x 236.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Before he became known as Saint Paul, Saul was a persecutor of Christians. This…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Campo di SS Giovanni e Paolo, Venezia (The Campo di SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice) 1743–1747 Oil on canvas, 70.8 x 111 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Venezia)
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) La Tempesta (The Tempest) c.1503–1509 Oil on canvas, 73 x 82 cm Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venezia Attested as part of Gabriele Vendramin’s collection by Marcantonio Michiel in 1530 and later in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century family inventories, The Tempest…