Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Trouville (The Beach at Trouville) 1870 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Monet spent the summer of 1870 at Trouville, the popular French resort along the English Channel. This…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) L’Europe après la pluie (Europe after the Rain II) 1940–1942 Oil on canvas, 54.8 × 147.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Ernst began this work in occupied France during World War II. He finished it in New York…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Celebes 1921 Oil on canvas, 125.4 × 107.9 cm Tate Britain, London The central rotund shape in this painting derives from a photograph of a Sudanese corn-bin, which Ernst has transformed into a sinister mechanical monster. Ernst often re-used…
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Dadaville c.1924 Painted plaster and cork on canvas, 68 × 56 x 6.3 cm Tate Britain, London After the destruction of the First World War, a group of European artists came together to create a new way of…
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Orion aveugle à la recherche du soleil levant (Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun) 1658 Oil on canvas, 119.1 x 182.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Classical myth provided Poussin with a pretext for one…
Post, Frans (1612-1680) A Brazilian Landscape 1650 Oil on wood, 61 x 91.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1630 to 1654, the Dutch Republic maintained a colony in the north of Brazil. Post accompanied the governor to the…
Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) Le Transport du charbon (The Coal Carriers) 1851 Oil on canvas, 47.62 × 68.26 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) Paysage avec biches et cerfs (Landscape with Deer) 1887 Oil on canvas, 45.1 × 73.7 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Bonheur, Rosa (1822-1899) La foire aux chevaux (The Horse Fair) 1852–1855 Oil on canvas, 244.5 x 506.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This, Bonheur’s best-known painting, shows the horse market held in Paris on the tree-lined Boulevard de l’Hôpital, near…
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Betsabea (Bathsheba) c.1636–1637 Oil on canvas, 265.4 x 209.5 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus