Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Green Park, London 1870 or 1871 Oil on canvas, 34.3 × 72.5 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Detail of Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington, and his equestrian statue. This small painting is one of two…
Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Allant au marché (Going to Market, Brittany) 1888 Oil on canvas, 37.5 x 46 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis The Pont-Aven artists often painted aspects of daily life in Brittany. In this animated scene, a couple rides…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors c.1874 Oil on canvas, 160 × 114.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Outside the National Gallery in London a fashionable tourist couple decides what to see next. The woman points her umbrella imperiously in the…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Love Song 1868–1877 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 155.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Burne-Jones associated this painting with a refrain from a French folk ballad: “Alas, I know a love song, / Sad or…
Schiele, Egon (1890-1918) Lovemaking (Liebesakt) 1915 Pencil and gouache on paper, 49.6 x 31.7 cm Leopold Museum, Vienna
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) The Love Potion 1903 Oil on canvas, 104.1 x 52 cm De Morgan Collection
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Love’s Passing 1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 71.7 x 109.8 cm De Morgan Collection The open book shows a passage from Latin poet Tibullus‘s ‘Elegy‘, where the writer imagines dying in his lover’s arms and considers her grief…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Sous-bois avec deux personnages (Undergrowth with Two Figures) 1890 Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 99.7 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Soissons vu de la fabrique de M. Henry (Soissons seen from Mr. Henry’s factory) 1833 Oil on canvas, 80 x 100.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo The fabrics trader Henry commissioned Corot to paint the view from his home…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Kiss IV 1902 (printed c.1913) Woodcut in gray and black ink, 46.67 x 46.36 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis