Canaletto (1697-1768) Eton College c.1754 Oil on canvas, 61.6 × 107.7 cm National Gallery, London This view is from the bank of the River Thames, looking across a sprawling meadow towards Eton College on the horizon. A shady glade gives way to…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Adoration of the Kings 1598 Bodycolour on vellum, 32.9 × 48 cm National Gallery, London Jan Brueghel seems to have squeezed a whole world into his tiny picture. A crowd waits patiently for a turn…
Constable, John (1776-1837) The Lock (Landscape) c.1820–1825 Oil on canvas, 71.5 x 92 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Attributed to John Constable.
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Tempête en approche (Approaching Storm) 1864 Oil on cradled panel, 36.3 × 57.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This painting by Eugène Boudin, a Norman painter and Claude Monet’s teacher, exemplifies the artist’s signature style and subject matter…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Veduta di Pirna con la Fortezza di Sonnenstein (View of Pirna with the Fortress of Sonnenstein) c.1760 Oil on canvas, 49.3 × 79.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Well trained by his uncle, Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto quickly established…
Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) Natività con i profeti Isaia ed Ezechiele (The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel) 1308–1311 Tempera on single poplar panel, 48 × 86.8 × 7.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This painting was part of…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Dahlias (Garden at Petit Gennevilliers) 1893 Oil on canvas, 157 x 114 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Gennevilliers (France)
Giordano, Luca (1634-1705) Il rapimento di Elena di Troia (The Abduction of Helen of Troy) c.1685–1690 Oil on canvas, 227 x 193.5 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Renoir c.1910 Oil on canvas, 80 x 64 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Charigot, Aline (1859-1915)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Woody Landscape c.1783–1784 Oil on canvas, 64 x 76.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Although most famous for his portraits, Gainsborough was also one of the originators of English landscape painting in the eighteenth century. Inspired by Dutch landscapes from…