Tag: figure

La Tamise à Westminster (c.1871)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Tamise à Westminster (The Thames at Westminster) c.1871 Oil on canvas, 47 x 73 cm National Gallery, London Monet arrived in London in September 1870, fleeing from the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, and stayed until May…

Jardin à Sainte-Adresse (1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jardin à Sainte-Adresse (Garden at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 98.1 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet spent the summer of 1867 with his family at Sainte-Adresse, a seaside resort near Le Havre. It was…

I Raro te Oviri (1891)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) I Raro te Oviri (Under the Pandanus) 1891 Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 90.8 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas First version: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) I Raro te Oviri 1891 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis     See also: • Tahiti (French…

Le Christ jaune (1889)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Le Christ jaune (The Yellow Christ) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.07 x 73.34 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo The Symbolists, who emerged during the 1880s, were weary of modern society and sought escape from reality. They began to…

Estasi di San Francesco (c.1595-1596)

Caravaggio (1571-1610) Estasi di San Francesco (Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy) c.1595–1596 Oil on canvas, 94 x 129.5 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Caravaggio revolutionized the painting of his era through a theatrical use of light, dramatic narrative, and the naturalistic…

Dido building Carthage (1815)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…

Rain, Steam and Speed (1844)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway 1844 Oil on canvas, 91 x 121.8 cm National Gallery, London A steam engine rushes towards us as it speeds along a bridge through the rain. The bridge…

Les lauriers roses (1867)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Les lauriers roses (The Terrace at Méric) 1867 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 91.4 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati See also: • Castelnau-le-Lez (France) | Des Hours, Thérèse