Derain, André (1880-1954 Montagnes à Collioure (Mountains at Collioure) 1905 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 100.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Trees and mountains nearly fill this composition and are painted with long, mostly parallel brushstrokes in this horizontal landscape.…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Vue du Port de Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme (View of the Port of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme) 1891 Oil on canvas, 45.2 x 64 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland See also: • Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme (France)
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Blanchisseuses près d’un ruisseau (Laundresses by a Stream) c.1885–1890 Oil on wood, 17.8 x 22.9 cm National Gallery, London Boudin is most famous for his scenes of well-to-do holidaymakers on the beaches of the fashionable Normandy resorts of…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La plage à Tourgéville-les-Sablons (The Beach at Tourgéville-les-Sablons) 1893 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 74.3 cm National Gallery, London Tourgéville-les-Sablons, with its great sweep of beach, lies on the Normandy coast between Deauville and Benerville. Here, the two…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Petites maisons près de Pontoise (Small Houses in Pontoise) c.1873–1874 Oil on canvas, 40.7 x 50.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Cézanne painted this landscape when he was working alongside Camille Pissarro in the Oise valley, north…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) 1891 Oil on canvas, 113.7 x 87.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Before embarking on a series of pictures inspired by Polynesian religious beliefs, Gauguin devoted this, his first major Tahitian…
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) A Naiad (or Hylas with a Nymph) 1893 Oil on canvas, 66 x 127 cm Private collection
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) Ophelia 1894 Oil on canvas, 124.5 x 73.7 cm Private collection See also: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) Ophelia 1889 Oil on canvas, 97.79 x 158.12 cm Private collection See also: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Waterhouse, John William (1849-1917) The Lady of Shalott 1888 Oil on canvas, 153 x 200 cm Tate Britain, London English poet Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘The Lady of Shalott’ (1833) describes a heroine confined to a tower and cursed to die…