Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La récolte des betteraves (The Beet Harvest) 1881 Gouache over graphite [?] on linen, 25.72 x 37.78 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro was an avowed anarchist who strongly opposed the existing social and…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Fontaine de Vénus (Fountain of Venus) 1756 Oil on canvas, 233 x 215 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Lighthearted, erotic decorative schemes remained popular among the French aristocracy throughout the 1700s. In this painting, part of the…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Portrait of a Judge c.1620 Oil on canvas, 117 x 98 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris With its two influences—that of the Antwerp tradition complemented by the Venetian influence—this splendid portrait of a magistrate could only have been executed…
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…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Toilette de Vénus (The Toilette of Venus) 1738 Oil on canvas, 96 x 143 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris Companion: Boucher, François (1703-1770) Le Sommeil de Vénus 1738 Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris The Toilette of Venus and Sleeping Venus Initially…
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Paysage avec Polyphème (Landscape with Polyphemus) 1649 Oil on canvas, 148.5 x 197.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Set into a Classical landscape are figures taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (13: 750-897). The one-eyed Cyclope Polyphemus fell in love with…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Souvenir de Coubron (Souvenir of Coubron) 1872 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 55.7 cm Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest In the wake of the Paris Commune (1871), Corot visited a friend of his in Coubron, a doctor, with whom he…
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…
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…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Botzaris surprend le camp des Turcs (Botzaris Surprises the Turkish Camp and Falls Fatally Wounded) 1860–1862 Oil on canvas, 65.1 × 73 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The sudden violence and confusion of a surprise attack is captured…