Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Paysage près d’Ornans (Landscape Near Ornans) 1864 Oil on canvas, 88.8 x 127.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “To paint a land you have to know it. I know my land and I paint it. That undergrowth—it…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 93 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Though inspired by the observation of his immediate surroundings, Van Gogh was not interested in mimicking what he saw.…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Antibes vu de la Salis (Antibes Seen from La Salis) 1888 Oil on canvas, 73.3 × 92 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Monet chose to paint this view from the vantage point of the Garden of La…
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…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Jardinière verte (The Green Jardinière) 1882 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 67.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Laveuse (Washerwoman) 1917 Bronze, 122.6 x 54.6 x 127 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Renoir conceived Washerwoman as one of a pair of figures. The other, never completed, would have been a blacksmith. The figures were…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Route à Wargemont (Road at Wargemont) 1879 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 100 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo See also: • Château de Wargemont (Derchigny) | Normandie (France)
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Edgar Degas 1878 Drypoint, 21 × 12.8 cm Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Compare: Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Degas 1876 National Gallery of Art, Washington Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Portrait du peintre Degas 1876 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton See also: • Degas, Edgar (1834-1917)
Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Portrait du peintre Degas (Portrait of Degas, from Life) 1876 Drypoint, 23 x 14.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Compare: Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Degas 1876 National Gallery of Art, Washington Desboutin, Marcellin (1823-1902) Edgar Degas 1878 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge …
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) & Studio La mort de Socrate (The Death of Socrates) after 1787 Oil on canvas, 133 x 196 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton David depicts Socrates about to drink hemlock rather than endure exile after being convicted…