Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Noce juive, d’après Delacroix (The Jewish Wedding, after Eugène Delacroix) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 83.3 x 64.1 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Compare: Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Noce juive dans le Maroc 1839 Musée du Louvre, Paris See…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Waterloo Bridge 1903 Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 92.9 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pont de Waterloo, effet de brouillard 1903 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Waterloo Bridge, le soleil dans le brouillard 1903…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Signature du contrat de mariage et danse à la campagne (Marriage Contract and Country Dance) c.1711 Oil on canvas, 47 × 55 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Known as a painter of “fêtes galantes”, Watteau combines a depiction of…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te Faaturuma (The Brooding Woman) 1891 Oil on canvas, 91.1 x 68.7 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le Retour du troupeau (Return of the Drove) c.1768–1770 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 80 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) A Grand Landscape early 1760s Oil on canvas, 146.1 x 157.5 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering) 1718–1721 Oil on panel, 48.6 × 64.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) Assisted by Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695-1736) Jean Antoine Watteau developed the genre of painting known as fête…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Fêtes Vénitiennes (Venetian Festivals) 1718–1719 Oil on canvas, 56.3 × 46.2 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh This is a very fine example of the ‘fêtes galantes’ perfected by Watteau. He included himself as the seated musician playing a musette.…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère (Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera) 1717 Oil on canvas, 129 × 194 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Cythera (Greece)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Charing Cross Bridge 1903 Oil on canvas, 73 x 104.1 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis In this scene, a train puffs across the bridge as sunlight falls through the mist and creates shimmering patterns on the river…