Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le Havre, Le Port (Le Havre, The Port) 1884 Oil on panel, 32.4 x 41.1 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York For Boudin, the sky—with its constant cloud motion and ever-changing light—proved a powerful source of inspiration throughout his…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Marée montante à Pourville (Rising Tide at Pourville) 1882 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Inspired in part by Gustave Courbet’s marines of the 1860s, Claude Monet here conveys the choppy, windswept sea…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Chemin montant, rue de la Côte-du-Jalet, Pontoise (The Climb, Rue de la Côte-du-Jalet, Pontoise) 1875 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.7 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In this painting, Camille Pissarro departs from the legible perspectives of traditional…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Amazone (The Equestrienne) c.1875–1876 Watercolor on paper, 20.8 x 27 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In the mid-nineteenth century, the term amazone mockingly referred to fashionable Parisian women who preferred to ride on horseback instead of inside a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Vignes à Cagnes (The Vineyards at Cagnes) 1908 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 55.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Here, Pierre-Auguste Renoir depicts a woman reading beneath an olive tree on his estate near Cagnes, in the…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme nue dans un paysage (Female Nude in a Landscape) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Petit nu bleu (Little Blue Nude) c.1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 46.35 x 38.1 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During the late 1870s Pierre-Auguste Renoir began applying Impressionist theory to the rendering of the human figure—a process that…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Le matin en Provence (Morning in Provence) c.1900–1906 Oil on canvas, 81.28 x 63.18 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Paul Cézanne painted this light-filled landscape late in his life while living in his hometown of Aix-en-Provence. Cézanne…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Paysans dans les champs, Éragny (Peasants in the Fields, Éragny) 1890 Oil on canvas, 64.45 x 80.33 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Later in his career, Camille Pissarro was deeply affected by Georges Seurat’s theories and techniques.…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Venice from the Giudecca 1840 Oil on canvas, 61 x 91.4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London Object Type Before photography, oil painting was a primary way of recording views of ancient cities, and many artists…