Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Daubigny travaillant sur le Botin près d’Auvers-sur-Oise (Daubigny working on his “Botin” near Auvers-sur-Oise) 1860 Oil on canvas, 24.3 x 34 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton This painting is both a lyrical example of Corot’s late landscape…
Constable, John (1776-1837) Houses on a Riverbank c.1794 Blue and grey wash over graphite, 14.1 x 17.6 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton The career of John Constable, one of Britain’s most iconic landscape painters, is represented here in its early stage.…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Nooning c.1872 Oil on canvas, 33.8 x 49.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Pluie, Auvers (Rain, Auvers) 1890 Oil on canvas, 50.3 x 100.2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The atmosphere recalls one of Van Gogh‘s favourite poems, Longfellow‘s ‘The Rainy Day’: ‘My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Rue de village (Village street) c.1917 Oil on canvas, 53 x 76.6 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This view of around 1917 depicts the suburb of Sannois in the north-west of Paris, an area which the artist painted repeatedly…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Rue des Fossés, Moret-sur-Loing 1892 Oil on canvas, 38.5 x 46.9 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Moret-sur-Loing (France)
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le coup de vent (The gust of wind) 1871–1873 Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 117.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Le Barrage de François Zola (The François Zola Dam) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 54.2 x 74.2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The dam was designed by Italian-born engineer François Zola, the father of novelist Émile Zola. In 1885 this…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Pêcheur amarré à une banque (Fisherman moored at a bank) c.1865–1870 Oil on canvas, 33 x 46.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La diligence dans la neige (The Diligence in the Snow) 1860 Oil on canvas, 137.2 × 199.1 cm National Gallery, London The high viewpoint in this painting opens up the prospect of the vast distance, heightening its very…