Tag: landscape

Venus and Adonis (mid-1630s)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Venus and Adonis probably mid-1630s Oil on canvas, 197.5 x 242.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Rubens took the subject of this painting from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Accidently pricked by one of Cupid’s…

The Virgin and Child with a Monkey (c.1498)

Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) The Virgin and Child with a Monkey c.1498 Engraving, 19.05 x 12.07 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Albrecht Dürer’s prints are characterized by nearly ethereal transitions from dark to light. From the fineness of the monkey’s wiry fur…

L’angoscia della partenza (1913-1914)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) L’angoscia della partenza (The Anguish of Departure) 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 86.04 x 70.17 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In his own words, Giorgio de Chirico aspired “to live in the world as an immense museum of…

Le Canigou (1921)

Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Le Canigou 1921 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 100.33 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo This painting depicts the view from Juan Gris’s hotel window in the small town of Céret, in the Pyrenees; Le Canigou is one…

La Voix des airs (1928)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La Voix des airs (The Voice of Space) 1928 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 49.53 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Surrealist René Magritte is best known for creating unusual compositions that are wonderfully strange in their illustrative…

La source de la Loue (c.1864)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La source de la Loue (The Source of the Loue) c.1864 Oil on canvas, 107.31 x 137.47 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Although Gustave Courbet resided in Paris for most of his life, he remained closely connected…

Rue de village à Marlotte (1866)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Rue de village à Marlotte (Village Street in Marlotte) 1866 Oil on canvas, 64.77 x 91.44 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Although Alfred Sisley is considered one of the key figures of Impressionism, he remained somewhat of…

Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (1875-1876)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (Towpath at Argenteuil, Winter) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100.01 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1871, following the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the newly wed Claude Monet moved from…