Tag: France

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…

Portrait de Jeanne Wenz (1886)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Portrait de Jeanne Wenz (Portrait of Jeanne Wenz) 1886 Oil on canvas, 80.7 × 59.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this portrait when he was only 22 years old and still an art…

Le Bohémien (1861-1862)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bohémien (The Bohemian) 1861–1862, date of rework: 1867 Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 55.3 x 2.5 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi The pose of this young man with a bent wrist recalls Renaissance painting and endows the work with…

Les Enfants luttant (1888)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les Enfants luttant (Children Wrestling) 1888 Oil on canvas, 93 x 73 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi Gauguin (1848–1903) discovered Japanese prints in 1887 through Vincent van Gogh. In 1888, for this Breton wrestling match, he adopted the aesthetic of…