Tag: France

Vue de Bordighera (1884)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vue de Bordighera (View of Bordighera) 1884 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.8 cm Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Bordighera 1884 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago     See also: • Bordighera (Italia)

Bordighera (1884)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Bordighera 1884 Oil on canvas, 65 × 80.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Early in 1884 Claude Monet traveled to Bordighera, a town on the Italian Riviera near the border between Italy and France, for a working visit…

Vaches dans un pré (c.1883)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vaches dans un pré (Cows in a meadow) c.1883 Oil on panel, 15.5 x 24 cm Private collection Vaches dans un pré was painted around 1883 and is one of Georges Seurat‘s so-called croquetons, pictures created on wooden…

Vue du village de Giverny (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vue du village de Giverny (View of the village of Giverny) Oil on canvas, 65.8 x 81.9 cm 1886 Private collection In 1886, the year that Monet painted this lively view over the farmhouses and fields of Giverny,…

La Rue Saint-Lazare, temps lumineux (1893)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La Rue Saint-Lazare, temps lumineux (Rue Saint-Lazare, bright weather) 1893 Oil on canvas, 73.2 x 60.2 cm Private collection “He watches the flow of life move by, majestic and dazzling. He admires the eternal beauty and the astonishing…

Le Jardin de l’artiste à Vétheuil (1881)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Jardin de l’artiste à Vétheuil (The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil) 1881 Oil on canvas, 151.5 x 121 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A small child stands facing us on a sun-dappled path that runs up the center…

Le déjeuner (1868-1869)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le déjeuner (The Luncheon) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 231.5 x 151 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt Art history would probably have taken a different course if the jury of the Paris Salon had not turned down this painting by Monet…