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Les funérailles (c.1867)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Les funérailles (The Funeral) c.1867 Oil on canvas, 72.7 x 90.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Manet’s unfinished painting is thought to depict the funeral of the writer Charles Baudelaire, which took place on September…

Monte Pincio, Rome (1840-1850)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Monte Pincio, Rome 1840–1850 Oil on canvas, 27 x 40.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Pincio | Roma (Italia) | Trinità dei Monti

La Trinité-des-Monts à Rome (c.1826-1828)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) La Trinité-des-Monts à Rome (Trinità dei Monti in Rome) 1826–1828 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 27.3 x 44.7 cm Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genève The Church of the Trinità dei Monti, one of the five French…

Charles River and Beacon Hill (c.1892)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Charles River and Beacon Hill c.1892 Oil on canvas, 40.96 x 45.72 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In Charles River and Beacon Hill Hassam employed the radical compositional effects that he had seen in French painting to…

Piazza San Marco (1742-1744)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco (The Square of Saint Mark’s, Venice) 1742–1744 Oil on canvas, 114.6 x 153 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dozens of men with several women and a few children gather in pairs or small groups…

Piazza San Marco, Venezia (1730-1734)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco, Venezia (Piazza San Marco, Venice) c.1730–1734 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 118.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Canaletto, celebrated for his views of Venice (vedute), depicts the city’s principal square of San Marco, which was…

Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (c.1730)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice) c.1730 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 73.66 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Painted views of towns and landscapes were enormously popular in the 18th…