Rembrandt (1606-1669) Large Landscape with Tower c.1651 Etching and drypoint, 12.3 x 31.3 cm Petit Palais, Paris In the field of landscape, it was Rembrandt who unquestionably captured with the greatest genius the highly particular essence of the Dutch countryside. This…
Brueghel, Pieter the Younger (1564-1638) The Wedding Procession 1623 Oil on panel, 71.5 x 122 cm Petit Palais, Paris A long wedding procession makes its way along the main road of a village, from the centre of the parish, shown on…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Abduction of Proserpina c.1614–1615 Oil on canvas, 38 x 67 cm Petit Palais, Paris This study for a large-scale painting that once belonged in England in the collections of the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim Castle,…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Knight, Death and the Devil 1513 Burin engraving, 24.6 x 19 cm Petit Palais, Paris Dürer was a painter, drawer, art theoretician and a wood and copper engraver, and one of the greatest creative talents in Western Art.…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Vieil homme au bâton (Old Man with a Stick) 1888 Oil on canvas, 70 x 45 cm Petit Palais, Paris This portrait of an old man sitting down was painted during Gauguin’s short stay in Arles. From 23 October…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Soleil couchant sur la Seine à Lavacourt, effet d’hiver (Setting Sun on the Seine at Lavacourt, Winter Effect) 1880 Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm Petit Palais, Paris Lavacourt is a village in the Paris area, located…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Théodore Duret (Portrait of Théodore Duret) 1868 Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 35.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris After the tumultuous exhibition of the Olympia (Paris, Musée d’Orsay) that scandalised the Salon in 1865, Manet left for Spain…
(1838–1927) Théodore Duret in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Portrait de Théodore Duret 1868 Petit Palais, Paris Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Théodore Duret 1912 National Gallery of Art, Washington Whistler, James (1834-1903) Portrait of Theodore Duret 1883 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Pompiers courant à un incendie (Firefighters running to a fire) 1851 Oil on canvas, 388 x 580 cm Petit Palais, Paris The Firemen is one of Courbet’s most enigmatic large-scale works. After the death of her brother, Juliette Courbet…
