Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) La Croix du Breuil, rendez-vous de chasse d’Henri IV, Bessines-sur-Gartempe (Haute-Vienne) 1923 Gouache on paper, 36.5 x 46.5 cm Private collection La Croix du Breuil, Bessines-sur-Gartempe. See also: • Bessines-sur-Gartempe (France) | Henri IV, King of France (1553-1610)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les vendangeurs (The Mussel Harvest) 1879 Oil on canvas, 54.2 x 65.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
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…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Rameurs à Chatou (Oarsmen at Chatou) 1879 Oil on canvas, 81.2 x 100.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Close to us, a woman and two men stand on a grassy riverbank looking out at the expanse…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) New England Headlands 1899 Oil on canvas, 68.9 x 68.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This panoramic landscape depicts Gloucester, Massachusetts, one of Childe Hassam’s favorite destinations. During the summer months Gloucester was home to many artists,…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La route dans les bois (The Road in the Woods) 1879 Oil on canvas, 46.3 x 55.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil 1872 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 59.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Boulevard Héloïse (Argenteuil)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne (The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne) 1872 Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Recently built, state-of-the-art bridges, emblematic of modernity, appear in a number of Sisley’s paintings of the 1870s…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) L’Empire des lumières, II (The Empire of Light, II) 1950 Oil on canvas, 78.8 x 99.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York © 2013 C. Herscovici, Brussels / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (Two Sisters, On the Terrace) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 × 80.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “He loves everything that is joyous, brilliant, and consoling in life,” an anonymous interviewer once…