Tag: cityscape

Calvary (1480s)

Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Workshop Calvary (central panel) 1480s Oil on oak, 56.2 × 62.7 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Calvary Triptych (1480s) Left shutter: Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Christ Carrying the Cross 1480s Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest     Right shutter: Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494)…

Charing Cross Bridge (c.1900)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Charing Cross Bridge c.1900 Oil on canvas, 66 x 92.7 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Monet was fascinated by the vaporous mists of London. He visited the English capital three times between 1899 and 1901, painting views of…

L’église San Giorgio Maggiore, Venise (1908)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’église San Giorgio Maggiore, Venise (The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice) 1908 Oil on canvas, 64.7 cm × 92 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In his series of paintings devoted to the church of San Giorgio Maggiore,…

Place du Théâtre Français, Paris: Pluie (1898)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre Français, Paris: Pluie (Place du Théâtre Français, Paris: Rain) 1898 Oil on canvas, 73.66 x 91.44 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis After a chronic eye infection limited the amount of time Camille Pissarro could spend…

Portico veneziano (c.1760)

Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Portico veneziano (Venetian portico / Imaginary Portico) c.1760 Gouache on paper, 53 x 39 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris The picture combines realism and fantasy, using a technique that was quite unusual for Guardi: gouache on paper, which gives the…

Le Pont-Neuf (1902)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Pont-Neuf 1902 Oil on canvas, 55.3 x 46.5 cm Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Pissarro produced a dozen of paintings of the Pont Neuf, the oldest stone bridge in Paris, capturing the elegant limestone structure spanning the Seine…

London Visitors (1874)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors 1874 Oil on canvas, 87 x 62.87 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Standing underneath the portico of the newly constructed National Gallery in London, with the church of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields framed behind them, a fashionably dressed couple…

La Seine à Paris, Pont du Carrousel (1922)

Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) La Seine à Paris, Pont du Carrousel (The Seine in Paris, Pont du Carrousel) 1922 Oil on canvas, 57 x 47 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This view from Pont Royal looks towards Pont du Carrousel, one of…

Rue à Sannois (c.1912)

Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Rue à Sannois (Street in Sannois) c.1912 Oil on canvas, 54 x 81 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Maurice Utrillo is known for his depictions of Paris and its outskirts, in which figures are often incidental or completely…

Hyde Park, London (c.1871)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Hyde Park, London c.1871 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 74 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • London (England)