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Au café (c.1877)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Au café (In the Café) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 35.7 x 27.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Everyday life Together with Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir is one of the central figures of impressionism. But while Monet prefers to paint…

La Madeleine au désert (1869)

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) La Madeleine au désert, Méditation (Mary Magdalene in the Desert, Meditation) 1869 Oil on canvas, 52.5 x 36.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Atiti (1892)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Atiti 1892 Oil on canvas, 29.7 x 24.7 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Atiti on his deathbed In 1891 Paul Gauguin moves to Tahiti. There he becomes friends with his neighbours, the Suhas family. He feels particularly close to…

Ariane (s.d.)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) Ariane (Ariadne) s.d. Oil on canvas, 44 x 29 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Tête de Don Quichotte (c.1870)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Tête de Don Quichotte (Head of Don Quixote) c.1870 Oil on panel, 32 x 24.8 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Compare: Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Don Quichotte et Sancho Panza c.1855 National Gallery, London     Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Don Quichotte lisant 1865–1867 National…

Soissons vu de la fabrique de M. Henry (1833)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Soissons vu de la fabrique de M. Henry (Soissons seen from Mr. Henry’s factory) 1833 Oil on canvas, 80 x 100.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo The fabrics trader Henry commissioned Corot to paint the view from his home…

L’Arc-en-ciel, Pontoise (1877)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) L’Arc-en-ciel, Pontoise (The Rainbow, Pontoise) 1877 Oil on canvas, 52.9 x 81.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Impressionistic The rainbow, Pontoise reflects a typically impressionistic way of observing and painting. The sun has just broken through after a storm…