Tag: light

Portrait d’homme (c.1880)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Portrait d’homme (Portrait of a Man) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 27.62 × 19.05 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This small portrait head has been identified by Paul Gauguin‘s son, Pola, as a portrait of the painters’…

Duck Island (1906)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Duck Island 1906 Oil on canvas, 52.07 x 80.01 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The broken brushstrokes, dappled light, and unblended colors of this scene of a popular island resort off the New Hampshire coast reveal…

Roses jaunes dans un vase (1882)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Roses jaunes dans un vase (Yellow Roses in a Vase) 1882 Oil on canvas, 53.34 × 46.36 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas A bouquet of yellow roses is set on a marble table against a dark…

La Gousse (1880)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) La Gousse 1880 Oil on panel, 13.34 x 22.86 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas

Maison abandonnée près d’Aix-en-Provence (1885)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Maison abandonnée près d’Aix-en-Provence (Abandoned House near Aix-en-Provence) 1885 Oil on canvas, 66.04 × 82.55 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Paul Cézanne‘s landscape paintings are often centered on houses, virtually all empty, abandoned, or ruined. But…

Lise cousant (1867-1868)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Lise cousant (Lise Sewing) c.1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 56.52 × 46.36 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Pierre-Auguste Renoir met Lise Tréhot in the spring of 1866, when he painted in and around the Forest of Fontainebleau…

Lise au châle blanc (c.1872)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Lise au châle blanc (Lise in a White Shawl) c.1872 Oil on canvas, 56.2 × 46.36 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Emery Reves and Douglas Cooper each considered this superb – and sentimental – portrait of…