Tag: landscape

Mauvaises nouvelles, la séparation (1872)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) Mauvaises nouvelles, la séparation (Bad News, The parting) 1872 Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 91.4 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Compare: Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le Thé 1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York     Tissot, James (1836-1902) Une histoire intéressante c.1872…

Matin de printemps (c.1875)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) Matin de printemps (Spring Morning) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 42.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The light on this spring day is so bright that the woman shields her eyes from the glare. She…

Landscape, Kragerø (1912)

Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Landscape, Kragerø (Landskap, Kragerø) 1912 Oil on canvas, 72.4 x 100.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Munch settled in the small town of Kragerø on the southern coast of his native Norway in 1909. After decades…

Kragerø in Spring (1929)

Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Kragerø in Spring (Kragerø om våren) 1929 Oil on canvas, 98.3 x 94.8 cm Private collection See also: • Kragerø (Norway)

L’Adorazione dei pastori (1450)

Mantegna, Andrea (c.1431-1506) L’Adorazione dei pastori (The Adoration of the Shepherds) shortly after 1450 Tempera on canvas, transferred from wood, 40 x 55.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painted when the artist was probably in his early twenties, the…

Paysage avec un ruisseau ensoleillé (c.1877)

Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Paysage avec un ruisseau ensoleillé (Landscape with a Sunlit Stream) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 63.8 x 47.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Daubigny began exhibiting his work regularly at the Salon in 1838, and by the…

A Woodland Road with Travelers (1607)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) A Woodland Road with Travelers 1607 Oil on wood, 46 x 83.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan, who was born shortly before the death of his famous father, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, advanced…

Landscape with Travelers on a Woodland Path (c.1607)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Landscape with Travelers on a Woodland Path c.1607 Oil on copper, 9.5 x 15.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Working on copper, Brueghel created small and jewel-like paintings defined by vivid color and anecdotal detail.…

Les Cyprès (1889)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Les Cyprès (Cypresses) 1889 Brown ink and graphite on paper, 61.9 x 47.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York This drawing dates from Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 stay at a psychiatric asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, during a period when…