Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Le lac de Terni, Souvenir d’Italie (The Moored Boatman: Souvenir of an Italian Lake) 1861 Oil on canvas, 60.96 × 90.17 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Terni (Italia)
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Concert au Casino de Deauville (Concert at the Casino of Deauville) 1865 Oil on canvas, 41.7 x 73 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Deauville (France)
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La Seine à Paris (The Seine River in Paris) 1883 Oil on canvas, 35.56 × 27.94 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas See also: • Paris (France)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1508 Oil on wood, 45.7 x 55.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dating to about 1508, this devotional painting is one of Titian’s earliest and shows the artist experimenting with ways to…
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) The Annunciation c.1465–1470 Oil on wood, 186.1 x 114.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of the largest surviving depictions of the Annunciation, this imposing painting was most likely commissioned by Ferry de Clugny, whose family coat…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur (The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore) 1908 Oil on canvas, 65 x 100.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Claude Monet’s preponderant role in the development of Impressionism tends to overshadow…
Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944) Munich (München) c.1901–1902 Oil on canvas board, 23.8 x 32.1 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Although known for his groundbreaking abstract experiments in painting, Vasily Kandinsky’s early paintings capture his days as a representational artist. After moving to Munich…
Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944) The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) 1903 Oil on board, 55 x 60 cm Private collection, Zürich
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Diane sortant du bain (Diana leaving her Bath) 1742 Oil on canvas, 57 x 73 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Le Bain de Vénus (The Bath of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 107 x 84.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In Enlightenment France the dedicated search to define truth engendered a re–evaluation of the natural. The belief that…