Boucher, François (1703-1770) Portrait de Madame de Pompadour (Portrait of Madame Pompadour) 1758 Oil on canvas, 57.8 × 52.4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London François Boucher (1703-1770) was born in Paris and probably received his first artistic training from his father…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Pot de fleurs et fruits (Pot of Flowers and Fruit) c.1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 46 x 56.25 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London The commonplace objects in this deceptively simple still life allow Paul Cézanne to set himself a…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Environs de Pont-Aven (Outskirts of Pont-Aven) c.1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 65 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In the late 1880s, Pierre-Auguste Renoir made several visits to Pont-Aven, an artists’ colony in Brittany where Paul Gauguin…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vase de fleurs (Vase of Flowers) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 x 81.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In the early 1880s, Claude Monet focused on painting ambitious floral still lifes. This lavish bouquet of mallows (a wild…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Rue de village (Village Street) 1909–1910 Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 35.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte aux fleurs et aux fruits (Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) c.1889 Oil on canvas, 99.7 × 140.3 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Camille au métier (Madame Monet Embroidering) 1875 Oil on canvas, 65.5 × 56 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Though Monet preferred painting in the open air, for this work he brought his easel indoors to capture his first wife, Camille…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Irises (F 608, JH 1691) 1889 Oil on canvas, 74.3 × 94.3 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles In May 1889, after episodes of self-mutilation and hospitalization, Vincent van Gogh chose to enter an asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. There,…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Service à thé (Still Life, Tea Service) 1872 Oil on canvas, 53.34 × 72.71 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Although he is primarily known for his landscapes, Claude Monet was also a prodigious still-life painter, especially during…
Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) The Annunciation 1480–1489 Oil on panel, transferred to canvas, 76.5 x 54.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Memling modeled this Annunciation on the left wing of Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Columba Altarpiece (now in Munich), but…