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Maison en Provence (c.1885)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Maison en Provence (House in Provence) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 25-1/2 x 32 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Cézanne loved the landscape of his home in southern France and devoted much of his career to painting it.…

Le printemps à Essoyes (c.1900)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le printemps à Essoyes (Springtime in Essoyes) c.1900 Oil on canvas, 19-3/4 x 24-1/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis See also: • Essoyes (France)

Bords de l’Oise près de Pontoise (1873)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Bords de l’Oise près de Pontoise (The Banks of the Oise near Pontoise) 1873 Oil on canvas, 38.1 cm × 55.2 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Pissarro’s landscape was painted at the dawn of the Impressionist era. Its…

Christ jaune (1889)

Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Christ jaune (Yellow Christ) 1889 Oil on canvas, 27-9/16 x 23-5/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis The artists of Pont-Aven were moved by the piety of the Breton people and often painted religious themes. Here Bernard presents Christ…

Port-en-Bessin (1888)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Port-en-Bessin 1888 Oil on canvas, 66 x 83.2 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis In the summer of 1888, Georges Seurat worked in Port-en-Bessin, a small fishing village in Normandy. He painted six views of the seaport and its…

La fuga in Egitto (1510)

Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) 1510 Oil on canvas, 151 x 89 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris Attributed to Botticelli, a painter in whom Nélie André was particularly interested, this painting represents a famous biblical episode—the flight…

Paysage avec Polyphème (1649)

Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Paysage avec Polyphème (Landscape with Polyphemus) 1649 Oil on canvas, 148.5 x 197.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Set into a Classical landscape are figures taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (13: 750-897). The one-eyed Cyclope Polyphemus fell in love with…

Souvenir de Coubron (1872)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Souvenir de Coubron (Souvenir of Coubron) 1872 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 55.7 cm Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest In the wake of the Paris Commune (1871), Corot visited a friend of his in Coubron, a doctor, with whom he…

The Wedding of St George and Princess Sabra (1857)

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) The Wedding of St George and Princess Sabra 1857 Watercolour on paper, 36.5 x 36.5 cm Tate Britain, London This work was executed while Rossetti and other artists were decorating the Oxford Union with medievalist murals. In Oxford,…

Régate à Trouville (1884)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Régate à Trouville (Regatta at Trouville) 1884 Oil on canvas, 60.3 × 73 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo In a view that seems like an uncomposed snapshot, summer villas hug the cliffs above the English Channel at Trouville,…