Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon 1881–1898 Oil on canvas, 279.4 × 650.2 cm Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce According to Thomas Malory‘s “Le Morte d’Arthur” (1470), King Arthur suffered a fatal wound in a…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Road from Market 1767–1768 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 170.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
El Greco (1541-1614) La Agonía en el huerto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1590–1595 Oil on canvas, 102.2 x 113.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo With his intensely personal style, El Greco (“the Greek”) is one of the most original…
Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Auvers, Paysage à la charrue (Auvers, Landscape with Plough) 1872–1877 Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 81.5 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Responding to 17th-century Dutch landscape paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael, Jan van Goyen, and others, Charles-François…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Avenue de Chantilly (Avenue at Chantilly) 1888 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Paul Cézanne combined classical structural stability with a new sense of respect for the inherent two-dimensionality of painting. By…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Rue de Tahiti (Street in Tahiti) 1891 Oil on canvas, 115.6 × 88.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The vibrant colors of Paul Gauguin’s painting express his intense reaction to the mysteries of the “new Eden” that…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Maisons à Auvers (Houses at Auvers) 1890 Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “Auvers is very beautiful, among other things a lot of old thatched roofs, which are getting rare…for really it…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Canal en Picardie (Canal in Picardy) c.1865–1871 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 61.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s The Canal in Picardy depicts a wistful, idyllic scene of springtime in the northern French…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Dans le jardin de Maurecourt (In the Garden at Maurecourt) 1884 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Painted in oil paints with the freedom and spontaneity of a watercolor sketch, In the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Route à Wargemont (Road at Wargemont) 1879 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 100 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Liquid colors in glowing, gem-like tones glide into each other, blurring contours, in one of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s most remarkable…