Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Derrière le miroir (Behind the Mirror) 1950 Lithograph on paper, 37.7 x 27.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
Derrière le miroir (1950)
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Rue de Tahiti (1891)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Rue de Tahiti (Street in Tahiti) 1891 Oil on canvas, 115.6 × 88.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The vibrant colors of Paul Gauguin’s painting express his intense reaction to the mysteries of the “new Eden” that…
Canal en Picardie (c.1865-1871)
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Canal en Picardie (Canal in Picardy) c.1865–1871 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 61.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s The Canal in Picardy depicts a wistful, idyllic scene of springtime in the northern French…
London Visitors (c.1874)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors c.1874 Oil on canvas, 160 × 114.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Outside the National Gallery in London a fashionable tourist couple decides what to see next. The woman points her umbrella imperiously in the…
The Campo Santo, Venice (1842)
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Campo Santo, Venice 1842 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 92.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Venice is radiant, if somewhat shabby, in Joseph Mallord William Turner’s view north across the Venetian Lagoon. The city…
Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers (1890)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 93 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the vast fields of wheat that stretched above Auvers-sur-Oise, a town north of…
Les toits du Vieux Rouen, temps gris (1896)
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Les toits du Vieux Rouen, temps gris (The Roofs of Old Rouen, Gray Weather) 1896 Oil on canvas, 72.3 × 91.4 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Camille Pissarro was suffering from a chronic eye infection that kept him…
The Salutation of Beatrice (1880-1882)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) The Salutation of Beatrice 1880–1882 Oil on canvas, 154.3 × 91.4 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The woman in this painting embodies the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty with her pale face, full lips, and thick, wavy,…
La Belle Iseult (1858)
Morris, William (1834-1896) La Belle Iseult 1858 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married…
Perseus and Andromeda (1875)
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Perseus and Andromeda (study for The Doom Fulfilled) 1875 Gouache with gold paint on board, 33 x 30.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Compare: Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Doom Fulfilled 1888 Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart