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Porte de la Reine à Aigues-Mortes (1867)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Porte de la Reine à Aigues-Mortes (Porte de la Reine at Aigues-Mortes) 1867 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the late spring of 1867 Bazille visited the town of Aigues-Mortes near…

Scène d’été (1869)

Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Scène d’été / Les Baigneurs (Summer Scene / Bathers) 1869 Oil on canvas, 160 x 160.7 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge When this painting was first exhibited at the Salon of 1870, critic and artist Zacharie Astruc wrote of Bazille,…

Monet peignant dans son jardin à Argenteuil (1873)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Monet peignant dans son jardin à Argenteuil (Monet painting in his garden at Argenteuil) 1873 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 59.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In the summer of 1873, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was staying with his friend Claude Monet…

Marriage of Peleus and Thetis (1636-1638)

Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) Marriage of Peleus and Thetis 1636–1638 Oil on canvas, 181 x 288 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid As with the Rape of Hippodamia (P01658), this marriage scene was commissioned from Rubens as part of the mythological cycle drawn from…