Post, Frans (1612-1680) Plantation Settlement in Brazil 1656 Oil on panel, 36.9 x 54 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection This panoramic view of a plantation settlement in Brazil was recollected by Frans Post one dozen years after he had…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 1639 Oil on canvas, 162 × 137 cm National Gallery, London In this moving painting, Saint Francis is shown meditating in a landscape. His cowl (or hood) is pulled…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Adoration of the Kings before 1621 Oil on copper, 33.7 x 48.7 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Compare: Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Adoration of the Magi 1598–1600 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Brueghel, Jan the…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Tempête en approche (Approaching Storm) 1864 Oil on cradled panel, 36.3 × 57.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This painting by Eugène Boudin, a Norman painter and Claude Monet’s teacher, exemplifies the artist’s signature style and subject matter…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Lavandières au bord de l’étang (Washerwomen at the Edge of the Pond) c.1880 Oil on panel, 18.4 × 24.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Post, Frans (1612-1680) Brazilian Landscape 1656 Oil on panel, 41.6 x 55.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This imagined landscape depicts enslaved Africans resting and dancing amid baskets of fruit on a hill above a broad plain of coastal swamp, surrounded by…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La récolte de bananes (Banana Harvest) 1907–1910 Oil on canvas, 36.83 × 45.09 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Parau Parau (Whispered Words) 1892 Oil on canvas, 77.1 × 96.5 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Te raau rahi (The Large Tree) 1891 Oil on fabric, 74 x 92.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gauguin positions four women in a friezelike sequence seeking shelter under the dark green leaves of a large tree…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Cabane à Trouville, marée basse (The Hut in Trouville, Low Tide) 1881 Oil on canvas, 80 x 73.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©CCarmen Thyssen Collection This painting is not unusual in Monet‘s oeuvre: the high line of…