Laurencin, Marie (1883-1956) L’éventail (The Fan) c.1919 Oil on canvas, 30.5 × 30 cm Tate Britain, London The Fan is painted in Marie Laurencin’s typically restrained palette of blue, rose and grey. It depicts two women staring at the viewer from…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Moisson, Le Pouldu (Harvest: Le Pouldu) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 × 92.1 cm Tate Britain, London In 1890 Gauguin was staying at Marie Henry’s boarding house in Le Pouldu, Brittany. The headland in this painting is at the western…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Pomeranian Bitch and Puppy c.1777 Oil on canvas, 83.2 × 111.8 cm Tate Britain, London The two dogs in this painting belonged to the musician Carl Friedrich Abel, the last of the great viola da gamba virtuosi. Abel was…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Tristram and Fox c.1775–1785 Oil on canvas, 61 × 50.8 cm Tate Britain, London Gainsborough had a countryman’s love of dogs and included them in numerous portraits and landscape paintings. He also painted a few works where dogs…
Cormon, Fernand (1845-1924) Caïn 1880 Oil on canvas, 400 x 700 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris This painting illustrates the miserable destiny of Cain, the elder son of Adam and Eve, who after the murder of his younger brother Abel was condemned…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage de Bretagne, Le moulin David (Landscape in Brittany, The David Mill) 1894 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Just like Cézanne and Van Gogh, Gauguin was convinced that painting should not be limited…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Death of Adonis 1639 Oil on wood panel, 34.6 x 52.4 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) View in Montmartre, Paris 1889 Watercolor and gouache over graphite, 35.3 x 25.3 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Montmartre | Paris (France)
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Chien mort (Dead Dog) c.1830 Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 87.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Morris, William (1834-1896) La Belle Iseult 1858 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married…