Tag: figure

Il Tramonto (1506-1510)

Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Il Tramonto (The Sunset) 1506–1510 Oil on canvas, 73.3 cm x 91.4 cm National Gallery, London The meaning of this scene, which takes place in a rocky landscape at sunset or sunrise, is difficult to decipher, largely because…

Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (1505-1510)

Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Adorazione dei pastori Allendale (The Adoration of the Shepherds) 1505–1510 Oil on panel, 90.8 x 110.5 cm cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Four people with pale skin are gathered to our right in a landscape, their heads…

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

Femme lisant (1869-1870)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Femme lisant (A Woman Reading) 1869–1870 Oil on canvas, 54.3 × 37.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When the seventy-two-year-old Corot showed A Woman Reading at the Salon of 1869, the critic Théophile Gautier praised…

Champs de coquelicots près d’Argenteuil (1875)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Champs de coquelicots près d’Argenteuil (Poppy Fields near Argenteuil) 1875 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work is one of four similar views of the plain of Gennevilliers, just…

La Seine à Lavacourt (1880)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Seine à Lavacourt (The Seine at Lavacourt) 1880 Oil on canvas, 98.425 x 149.225 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas See also: • Lavacourt (France)

L’étang à Montgeron (c.1876)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’étang à Montgeron (Pond at Montgeron) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 173 x 194 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg This is one of four decorative panels commissioned by the financier Ernest Hoschedé, amongst the first patrons of the…