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…
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…
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)
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Astruc, Zacharie (1833-1907) Paysage avec chariot et meules de foin (Landscape with Wagon and Haystacks) c.1869–1870 Watercolor, 13.6 x 16.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Inondation à Moret (Flood at Moret) 1879 Oil on canvas, 54 x 71.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In the 1870s, the Seine and its tributaries, including the Loing, were flooded several times as a consequence of increased…