Tag: landscape

Vista de Toledo (1599-1600)

El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for…

Sheaves of Wheat (1890)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Sheaves of Wheat (F 771, JH 2125) 1890 Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 101.6 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas On 17 June 1890, Vincent van Gogh received a large shipment of canvases from his brother…

River Bank in Springtime (1887)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) River Bank in Springtime (F 352, JH 1321) 1887 Oil on canvas, 48.9 × 58.1 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The light, fresh tones and free brush strokes in this painting of the banks of…

Rue de l’Hermitage, Pontoise (1873-1875)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Rue de l’Hermitage, Pontoise 1873–1875 Watercolor, pencil and gouache on paper, 16.83 × 22.86 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This previously unpublished watercolor is unique in Pissarro‘s career, as it is the only watercolor depicting the…

Paysage à Eragny (1890)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Paysage à Eragny (Landscape at Eragny) 1890 Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper, 21.59 x 26.035 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas On 14 January 1891, Camille Pissarro wrote to his eldest son, Lucien: “I have mounted…

Nymphéas (1908)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Nymphéas (Water Lilies) 1908 Oil on canvas, 99.69 x 99.69 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Twentieth-century art is inconceivable without Claude Monet‘s paintings of water lilies. They are, in many ways, as important in the history…

Valle Buona, près de Bordighera (1884)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vallebona, près de Bordighera (Valle Buona, Near Bordighera) 1884 Oil on canvas, 64.45 × 91.44 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This landscape depicts the rugged countryside along the Riviera at the French-Italian border. The Valle Buona…

Aria après le ballet (1879)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aria après le ballet (Aria after the Ballet) 1879 Pastel and Gouache on paper, 59.69 x 74.93 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The Durand-Ruel family seems to have bought this splendid painted print by Edgar Degas…