Monet, Claude (1840-1926) San Giorgio Maggiore 1908 Oil on canvas, 59.2 x 81.2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Between October and December 1908, Monet and his wife Alice visited Venice, where they stayed on the Grand Canal. This composition depicts the…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le Semeur (The Sower) 1847–1848 Oil on canvas, 95.3 x 61.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La famille paysanne (The peasant family) 1871–1872 Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 81 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The British painter Sickert commented: ‘The sublime man and his stolid spouse face the spectator with all the gravity and symmetry…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La bergère assise (The Seated Shepherdess) 1840–1850 Oil on board, 18.6 x 24.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Printemps (Spring) 1881 Oil on canvas, 74 x 51.5 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles A chic young woman in a day dress with floral accents holds a parasol against a background of exuberant foliage. She looks straight…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le bon Samaritain (The good Samaritan) 1846 Oil on canvas, 41 x 32.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La fille aux oies à Gruchy (The goose girl at Gruchy) 1854–1856 Oil on canvas, 33 x 24.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Gruchy, Gréville-Hague (France)
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) L’hiver, Ramasseuses de fagots (Winter, The Faggot Gatherers) 1868–1875 Oil on canvas, 82 x 100 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le coup de vent (The gust of wind) 1871–1873 Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 117.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Les étoiles filantes (The shooting stars) 1847–1849 Oil on board, 18.7 x 34.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This purely imaginary subject is unusual among Millet’s works. It refers to Dante‘s ‘Inferno‘ which in one section describes the…