Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Un enterrement à Ornans (A Burial at Ornans) 1849–1850 Oil on canvas, 315 x 668 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris At the end of the summer of 1849, Courbet began his first monumental painting. He wanted to make it…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Florence. Vue prise des jardins Boboli (View of Florence from the Boboli Gardens) c.1835–1840 Oil on canvas, 51 x 73 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Giardino di Boboli (Firenze)
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Majas al balcón (Majas on a Balcony) c.1808–1812 Oil on canvas, 162 x 107 cm Private collection, Switzerland Compare: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Majas al balcón c.1800–1810 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) El coloso (The Colossus) after 1808 Oil on canvas, 116 x 105 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A fearsome giant looms over a valley filled with a terrified, scattering multitude in what has on occasions been seen as…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Corral de locos (Yard with Madmen) 1794 Oil on tin-plated iron, 42.9 x 31.4 cm Meadows Museum, Dallas Compare: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Casa de locos after 1794 Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Los cómicos ambulantes (The Strolling Players) 1793 Oil on tinplate, 42.5 x 31.7 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This popular scene painted with great technical freedom shows an improvised stage surrounded by people in the midst of a…
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) El columpio (The Swing) 1787 Oil on canvas, 169 x 100 cm Private collection, Madrid
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) El ciego de la guitarra (The Blind Guitarist) 1778 Oil on canvas, 260 x 311 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The central motif of this work is the blind singer who travels to cities and towns, spreading…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Les côteaux de l’Hermitage, Pontoise (The Hermitage at Pontoise) c.1867 Oil on canvas, 150.3 x 200 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York The view represented here is a winding village path at the base of a cluster of houses…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Vue de l’Hermitage, Côte de Jalais, Pontoise (View of l’Hermitage, Jalais Hills, Pontoise) c.1867 Oil on canvas, 70 x 100 cm Private collection See also: • Hermitage (Pontoise)