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La Seine à Chatou (c.1871)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Seine à Chatou (The Seine at Chatou) c.1871 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 56.1 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Chatou (France)

I am half sick of shadows (1915)

Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) ‘I am half sick of shadows,’ said The Lady of Shalott (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott, Part II) 1915 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 73.7 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892)

Vue de Volterra (1838)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Vue de Volterra (View of Volterra) 1838 Oil on canvas, 32.2 x 24.4 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego In 1834, on his second trip to Italy, Corot spent a month in the 14th century hill town…

Le bluff de l’aveugle (c.1775-1780)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Le bluff de l’aveugle (Blind man’s Bluff) c.1775–1780 Oil on canvas, 62.5 x 45.1 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego Jean Honore Fragonard trained in the studio of François Boucher, who painted Lovers in the Park, hanging…

M. Loulou (1890)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) M. Loulou (Mr. Louis Le Ray) 1890 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 46.4 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Beginning in 1886 Gauguin frequently painted in Le Pouldo, a small town in the Brittany region of France, attracted by what…

La Leçon de musique (1917)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) La Leçon de musique (The Music Lesson) 1917 Oil on canvas, 245.1 x 210.8 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Matisse set this portrait of his wife, daughter, and two sons in the living room of the family home in…

La Famille Henriot (c.1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Famille Henriot (Henriot Family) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 164.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Daytrips to the countryside around Paris became a popular form of leisure during the late 19th century. Renoir alludes to this kind…

La baie de Marseille, vue de l’Estaque (c.1885)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La baie de Marseille, vue de l’Estaque (The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L’Estaque) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 80.2 × 100.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In a letter to his friend and teacher Camille Pissarro, Paul…