Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Maisons à Auvers (Houses at Auvers) 1890 Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “Auvers is very beautiful, among other things a lot of old thatched roofs, which are getting rare…for really it…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Canal en Picardie (Canal in Picardy) c.1865–1871 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 61.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s The Canal in Picardy depicts a wistful, idyllic scene of springtime in the northern French…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Crepuscule in Opal, Trouville 1865 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 46 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “Art should be independent of all claptrap—should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear,…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Paysage près d’Ornans (Landscape Near Ornans) 1864 Oil on canvas, 88.8 x 127.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “To paint a land you have to know it. I know my land and I paint it. That undergrowth—it…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 93 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the vast fields of wheat that stretched above Auvers-sur-Oise, a town north of…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Antibes vu de la Salis (Antibes Seen from La Salis) 1888 Oil on canvas, 73.3 × 92.1 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The shimmering light of mid-afternoon infuses Claude Monet’s painting of the old fortified coastal town…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Route à Wargemont (Road at Wargemont) 1879 Oil on canvas, 80.6 x 100 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Liquid colors in glowing, gem-like tones glide into each other, blurring contours, in one of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s most remarkable…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Love Song 1868–1877 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 155.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Burne-Jones associated this painting with a refrain from a French folk ballad: “Alas, I know a love song, / Sad or…
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.…