Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Trouville, bateaux de pêche échoués dans le chenal (Trouville, fishing boats beached in the channel) c.1848 Oil on paper on canvas, 21 x 23.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Le moulin de Sannois (The Windmill at Sannois) 1912 Oil on cardboard, 53.7 × 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In the spring of 1912 Utrillo was admitted to an institution in Sannois, on the outskirts…
Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) L’Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) shortly after 1450 Tempera on canvas, transferred from wood, 40 x 55.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted when the artist was probably in his early twenties, the…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Piazza San Marco late 1760s Oil on canvas, 68.9 x 85.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This view can be compared to Canaletto’s of the same location painted forty years prior. Guardi’s technique is far looser…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers) 1787 Oil on canvas, 147.6 x 120.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Well-to-do art collectors of the eighteenth century enjoyed “fancy pictures” such as this, which provided an idealized and sentimental…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) A Woodland Road with Travelers 1607 Oil on wood, 46 x 83.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan, who was born shortly before the death of his famous father, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, advanced…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Landscape with Travelers on a Woodland Path c.1607 Oil on copper, 9.5 x 15.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York