Tag: green

Aux courses (c.1875)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Aux courses (At the Races) c.1875 Oil on wood, 12.6 x 21.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We find ourselves on an emerald-green, grassy racetrack as a dusty cluster of horses and their jockeys bear directly…

Eleonora di Toledo e il figlio Francesco (c.1549)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo e il figlio Francesco (Eleanor of Toledo and her son Francesco) c.1549 Oil on panel, 114 x 95 cm Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Reale, Pisa See also: • Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562) | Francesco I de’ Medici…

Una giovane donna e il suo bambino (c.1540)

Bronzino (1503-1572) Una giovane donna e il suo bambino (A Young Woman and Her Little Boy) c.1540 Oil on panel, 99.5 x 76 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman wearing a crimson-red brocade dress and gold jewelry fills…

La vague verte (1866-1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La vague verte (The Green Wave) c.1866–1867 Oil on canvas, 48.6 x 64.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When this early seascape debuted at the 1879 Impressionist exhibition, a critic remarked that it was “directly…

La Rêverie (1877)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Rêverie, ou Portrait de l’actrice Jeanne Samary (Daydreaming or Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary) 1877 Oil on canvas, 56 x 47 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow Female images occupy a special place in Renoir‘s work, becoming…

La Cueillette des fleurs (1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Cueillette des fleurs (Picking Flowers) 1875 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 65.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A light-skinned man and woman stand looking at each other, surrounded by blooming flowers and lush green trees…

Petites maisons près de Pontoise (1873-1874)

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…