Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Fête champêtre (Pastoral Gathering) 1718–1721 Oil on panel, 48.6 × 64.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684-1721) Assisted by Jean-Baptiste Pater (French, 1695-1736) Jean Antoine Watteau developed the genre of painting known as fête…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) Le voleur du nid de moineaux (The Robber of the Sparrow’s Nest) c.1710 Oil on paper laid on canvas, laid on panel, 22.60 x 18.50 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh Watteau shows a young couple in an idyllic woodland…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) Red Hills with the Pedernal 1936 Pastel on paper mounted to wood-pulp board, 54.6 x 69.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York The Pedernal is a flat-topped mountain that commands the Ghost Ranch landscape and is visible for miles…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Port-en-Bessin, avant-port, marée basse (Port-en-Bessin: The Outer Harbor, Low Tide) 1888 Oil on canvas, 66 x 82 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Compare: Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Port-en-Bessin, l’avant-port, marée basse 1888 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis See also: • Port-en-Bessin-Huppain (France)
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Port-en-Bessin, l’avant-port, marée basse (Port-en-Bessin: The Outer Harbor, Low Tide) 1888 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 66.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Georges Seurat produced this painting while spending the summer at the Normandy resort of Port-en-Bessin.…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) La madre (The Mother) 1901 Oil on cardboard mounted on panel, 74.9 × 52.1 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis This work, painted by Pablo Picasso when he was just 20 years old, features a mother who…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Augustine Roulin 1888 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’, Winterthur Compare: Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Madame Roulin 1888 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis See also: • Arles (France) | Roulin, Augustine (1851-1930)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Paysage avec un cheval (Landscape with a Horse) 1899 Oil on burlap, 70.8 x 44.5 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis In this scene Paul Gauguin depicted a group of huts and a single wild horse against…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) L’Escalier d’Auvers (Stairway at Auvers) 1890 Oil on canvas, 50 × 70.5 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis The expressive, swirling lines of the foreground road move backward to the center of the composition and join the…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Usines à Clichy (Factories at Clichy) 1887 Oil on canvas, 53.7 x 72.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Vincent van Gogh depicted an expanse of factories billowing smoke into the air in the gritty, industrial…