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Le lac de Terni, Souvenir d’Italie (1861)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Le lac de Terni, Souvenir d’Italie (The Moored Boatman: Souvenir of an Italian Lake) 1861 Oil on canvas, 60.96 × 90.17 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Terni (Italia)

Concert au Casino de Deauville (1865)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Concert au Casino de Deauville (Concert at the Casino of Deauville) 1865 Oil on canvas, 41.7 x 73 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Deauville (France)

Madonna col Bambino (c.1508)

Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1508 Oil on wood, 45.7 x 55.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dating to about 1508, this devotional painting is one of Titian’s earliest and shows the artist experimenting with ways to…

Baigneuse dans les bois (1895)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Baigneuse dans les bois (Bather in the Woods) 1895 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In summer 1893 Pissarro wrote his son Lucien that he was planning a series of canvases of nude…

The Annunciation (c.1465-1470)

Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) The Annunciation c.1465–1470 Oil on wood, 186.1 x 114.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York One of the largest surviving depictions of the Annunciation, this imposing painting was most likely commissioned by Ferry de Clugny, whose family coat…

Dressing for the Carnival (1877)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Dressing for the Carnival 1877 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this painting Homer evoked the dislocation and endurance of African American culture that is a legacy of slavery—specifically the Jonkonnu…

Le Bain de Vénus (1751)

Boucher, François (1703-1770) Le Bain de Vénus (The Bath of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 107 x 84.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In Enlightenment France the dedicated search to define truth engendered a re–evaluation of the natural. The belief that…