Tag: bridge

Pont de Waterloo, effet de brouillard (1903)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pont de Waterloo, effet de brouillard (Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog) 1903 Oil on canvas, 65.3 x 101 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This is just one of a series of famous views of London created by…

Le pont à Argenteuil un jour gris (c.1876)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le pont à Argenteuil un jour gris (Bridge at Argenteuil on a Gray Day) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 61 x 80.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across a glimmering river toward docks, about a…

Le pont à Argenteuil (1874)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le pont à Argenteuil (The Bridge at Argenteuil) 1874 Oil on canvas, 60 x 79.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington From a distance of ten feet or so, Monet‘s brushstrokes blend to yield a convincing view…

Pont sur un étang de nymphéas (1899)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pont sur un étang de nymphéas (Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies) 1899 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1893, Monet, a passionate horticulturist, purchased land with a…

Le Pont Neuf à Paris (1872)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Pont Neuf à Paris 1872 Oil on canvas, 75.3 x 93.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington While his figure paintings are better known, Renoir‘s landscapes resonate with a vigor and freshness of vision central to…

Landscape with a Castle (c.1640-1642)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Landscape with a Castle c.1640–1642 Oil on panel, 44 x 60 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painting visibly left in a certain state of incompleteness (the sky by contrast was painted first and is colored and finished): Rembrandt…

Landscape with a Stone Bridge (c.1638)

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…

Pont de Charing Cross (c.1906)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Pont de Charing Cross dit aussi Pont de Westminster (Charing Cross Bridge, also known as Westminster Bridge) c.1906 Oil on canvas, 81 x 100.6 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris At the 1905 Salon d’automne, Derain shared the same…

Esquisse pour ‘Le vieux pont à Cagnes’ (1910)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Esquisse pour ‘Le vieux pont à Cagnes’ (Sketch for ‘The Old Bridge at Cagnes’) 1910 Graphite and watercolour on paper, 19.7 x 22.2 cm Tate Britain, London This drawing dates from a period in which Derain had moved…