Legros, Alphonse (1837-1911) Soirée à la fenêtre (Evening at the Window) 1884 Etching and drypoint Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Alphonse Legros taught for nearly two decades as a professor of fine arts at the Slade School in London and was…
Guillemet, Antoine (1841-1918) Le Soir (The Evening) 1903 Oil on panel, 57 x 90 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Péniche sur l’Oise, le soir, Île de Vaux (Barge on the Oise, evening, Île de Vaux) 1870 Oil on canvas, 46 × 81 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water 1872 Oil on canvas, 51 × 76.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 1870s James McNeill Whistler took a radical step toward abstraction with his Nocturnes series. In…
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Evening 1888 Oil on canvas, 75 x 100.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Munch Museum / Munch-Ellingsen Group / VEGAP, Madrid From very early on in his career Edvard Munch aimed to convey the angst and isolation characteristic of…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Evening Landscape 1885 Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard, 35 x 43 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid In April 1885, while concentrating on the series devoted to the Potato Eaters, a tribute to the country folk of Brabant,…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) The Stevedores in Arles 1888 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid When Vincent van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888 seeking the luminous atmosphere of the French Midi, he eschewed pointillist and…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La rêveuse, Soirée d’été (The Dreamer, Summer Evening) c.1876 Oil on wood, 34.9 x 60.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Concarneau, calme du soir, Allegro Maestoso (Evening Calm, Concarneau) 1891 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York As Georges Seurat’s most ardent follower, Paul Signac steadfastly promoted the principles of Neo-Impressionism all his…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Evening of the Deluge c.1843 Oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A butter-yellow sky fills the top two-thirds of this square landscape painting while in the bottom third,…