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Wapping (1860-1864)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Wapping 1860–1864 Oil on canvas, 72 x 101.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a…

Le Boulevard Montmartre, matin d’hiver (1897)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Boulevard Montmartre, matin d’hiver (The Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning) 1897 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York After spending six years in rural Eragny, Pissarro returned to Paris, where he…

Le Boulevard Montmartre à Paris (1897)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Boulevard Montmartre à Paris (Boulevard Montmartre in Paris) 1897 Oil on canvas, 74 x 92.8 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Like Claude Monet, Pissarro, an outstanding representative of the Impressionist movement, often painted whole series of works showing…

Étude pour “Le Pont de l’Europe” (1876)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Étude pour “Le Pont de l’Europe” (Study for “Le Pont de l’Europe”) 1876 Oil on canvas, 83.18 x 122.56 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During his time, Gustave Caillebotte was best known as an enthusiastic collector and…

La Seine à Meudon (1897-1905)

Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La Seine à Meudon (Outskirts of Paris) 1897–1905 Oil on fabric, 37.8 x 45.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Rousseau once said to Picasso: “We are the two greatest artists of this era, you in the Egyptian style,…