Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Deauville 1893 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 74.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London A native of Normandy, Eugène Boudin made his name depicting fashionable Parisian visitors at its seaside resorts. Later in his career, he turned to painting…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Pompiers courant à un incendie (Firefighters running to a fire) 1851 Oil on canvas, 388 x 580 cm Petit Palais, Paris The Firemen is one of Courbet’s most enigmatic large-scale works. After the death of her brother, Juliette Courbet…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La sieste pendant la saison des foins (The siesta during the hay season) 1868 Oil on canvas, 212 x 273 cm Petit Palais, Paris This rural scene painted by Courbet offers a tranquil vision of peasant life, depicted…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) L’angoscia della partenza (The Anguish of Departure) 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 86.04 x 70.17 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In his own words, Giorgio de Chirico aspired “to live in the world as an immense museum of…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Ultimo miracolo e morte di san Zanobi (Last Miracle and Death of Saint Zenobius) c.1500 Tempera on poplar, 66 x 182 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden The plaque was part of a cycle that tells of the miracles of…