Tag: France

Corbeille de fleurs (1876)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Corbeille de fleurs (Rounded Flower Bed) 1876 Oil on canvas, 59.3 × 81.3 × 1.8 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Monet‘s garden at Argenteuil near Paris provided the subject matter for this painting: a flower bed of…

Vue du Crotoy en amont (1889)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vue du Crotoy en amont (View of Le Crotoy from Upstream) 1889 Oil on canvas, 70.5 × 86.7 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Seurat‘s unique style of painting (called pointillism, divisionism, or neo-impressionism) was based on scientific…

Au cirque (1899)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Au cirque (At the Circus) 1899 Crayon, pastel, and watercolor on wove paper, 25.1 × 35.6 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Depicted here is a scene from the ballet Papa Chrysantheme performed in 1892 at the…

Le Bain (1908)

Valadon, Suzanne (1865-1938) Le Bain (The Bath) 1908 Crayon, pastel, and red and white chalk on paper, 33.3 × 36.8 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

Autoportrait (c.1893)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Autoportrait (Self-portrait) c.1893 Oil on canvas, 46 × 38.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Gauguin exemplified the restless artistic spirit. In this image, painted during a brief return to Paris from Tahiti in 1893, he plays the…