Tag: cityscape

Charing Cross Bridge (1905-1906)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Charing Cross Bridge 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 81.7 x 100.7 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this cityscape Derain rendered the customary gray of the London sky with dramatic color. In the summer of 1905 he…

Charing Cross Bridge, London (1906)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Charing Cross Bridge, London 1906 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 100.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across river at a bridge with a city skyline beyond in this stylized, horizontal landscape, which is painted entirely…

The Palace of Westminster (1906-1907)

Derain, André (1880-1954) The Palace of Westminster 1906–1907 Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 99.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1905 and 1906, Derain traveled to London at the suggestion of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard to paint the…

Piazza San Marco (1742-1744)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco (The Square of Saint Mark’s, Venice) 1742–1744 Oil on canvas, 114.6 x 153 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dozens of men with several women and a few children gather in pairs or small groups…

Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (c.1730)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice) c.1730 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 73.66 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Painted views of towns and landscapes were enormously popular in the 18th…

Piazza San Marco (late 1720s)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco (St Mark’s Square) late 1720s Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 112.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The most celebrated view painter of eighteenth-century Venice, Canaletto was particularly popular with British visitors to the…

Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil (1872)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil 1872 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 59.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Boulevard Héloise, Argenteuil 1872 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven     See also: • Boulevard Héloïse (Argenteuil)

Paris par la fenêtre (1913)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Paris par la fenêtre (Paris Through the Window) 1913 Oil on canvas, 136 x 141.9 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York After Marc Chagall moved to Paris from Russia in 1910, his paintings quickly came to reflect the latest…