De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La Famille du peintre (The Painter’s Family) 1926 Oil on canvas, 146.4 × 114.9 cm Tate Britain, London In the mid-1920s de Chirico reworked many of the themes of his pre-war paintings in the light of his…
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The golden prime of good Haroun Alraschid 1863 Watercolour on vellum, 10.2 x 12.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) London from Greenwich Park exhibited 1809 Oil on canvas, 90.2 x 120 cm Tate Britain, London Like the view from Richmond Hill, that upstream towards the City from Greenwich Park is one of the most prized…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) London, from Greenwich 1811 Etching and mezzotint, 21.1 x 29.8 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This panoramic view is based on Joseph Mallord William Turner’s painting London from Greenwich Park (1809; Tate, London). The Queen’s…
Boch, Eugène (1855-1941) The Mine Crachet-Picquery in Frameries, Borinage 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 56 x 78 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Exchanged by the artist with Theo van Gogh, Paris, 22 June 1890.
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) View in Montmartre, Paris 1889 Watercolor and gouache over graphite, 35.3 x 25.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Montmartre | Paris (France)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les chambres du Parlement, les mouettes (The Houses of Parliament, Seagulls) 1903 Oil on canvas, 81 x 92 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Escaping the Franco-Prussian War, Monet moved to London in the fall of 1870 and…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Love Song 1868–1877 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 155.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Burne-Jones associated this painting with a refrain from a French folk ballad: “Alas, I know a love song, / Sad or…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le vase de fleurs (The Vase of Flowers) 1940 Gouache, 64 x 46.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Vue du Parc Montsouris, Le Kiosque (View of the Montsouris Park, The Kiosk) c.1908–1910 Oil on canvas, 65.7 x 79.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Here we see a group of people strolling through the Parc Montsouris, one of four…