Tag: cityscape

Vista di Vienna dal Belvedere (1758-1761)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Vista di Vienna dal Belvedere (Vienna Viewed from the Belvedere Palace) 1758–1761 Oil on canvas, 135 × 213 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This view of Vienna from the Upper Belvedere Palace, the summer palace of Prince Eugene of…

La Dogana a Venezia (c.1724-1730)

Canaletto (1697-1768) La Dogana a Venezia (The Dogana in Venice) c.1724–1730 Oil on canvas, 46 × 63.4 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Across the forecourt of the Dogana (customs office) at the mouth of the Grand Canal, the view goes to the…

Une laveuse au Quai d’Anjou (c.1860)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Une laveuse au Quai d’Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d’Anjou) c.1860 Oil on wood, 28.57 x 19.68 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Through light and shadow, Honoré Daumier empathetically responded to the effects of increasing industrialization in…

Rue de Meknès (1832)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Rue de Meknès (Street in Meknes) 1832 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 64.13 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo See also: • Meknes (Morocco)

Cupid as Link Boy (1774)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Cupid as Link Boy 1774 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Joshua Reynolds’s portrait transforms a sight common to the streets of eighteenth-century London—a child worker lighting torches—into an allegory. “Link boys,”…

Scène de rue (1900s)

Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Scène de rue (Street Scene) 1900s Oil on panel, 49.9 x 72.7 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Bateau de Blanchisseuses sur la Seine (1887)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Bateau de Blanchisseuses sur la Seine (The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières) 1887 Oil on canvas, 19.05 × 26.99 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond The Laundry Boat on the Seine at Asnières exemplifies…

Le Quai du Pothuis à Pontoise (1872)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Quai du Pothuis à Pontoise (The Quai du Pothuis in Pontoise) 1872 Oil on canvas, 45.09 × 55.25 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Views of Pontoise, a northwestern suburb of Paris, were among Pissarro’s most…