Tag: light

Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (c.1730)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice) c.1730 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 73.66 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Painted views of towns and landscapes were enormously popular in the 18th…

Dante et Virgile (1850)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Dante et Virgile (Dante and Virgil) 1850 Oil on canvas, 280.5 x 225.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Having failed on two occasions to win the Prix de Rome (1848 and 1849), Bouguereau was hungry for revenge. His…

Les Nymphes et le Satyre (1873)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Les Nymphes et le Satyre (Nymphs and Satyr) 1873 Oil on canvas, 260.4 x 182.9 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Three nymphs playfully drag a Satyr into a woodland pond, while a fourth calls to her companions…

Aux Courses, Le Départ (c.1860-1862)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Aux Courses, Le Départ (At the Races: The Start) c.1860–1862 Oil on canvas, 33 x 47 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Degas often depicted horse racing, producing forty-five oil paintings featuring the subject. This early work, with…

La répétition (c.1873-1878)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La répétition (The Rehearsal) c.1873–1878 Oil on canvas, 47.2 x 61.5 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA This is one of Degas’s earliest paintings of dancers, a subject which he depicted in many media throughout his career. A close…

Pierre-Henri Renoir (1870)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Pierre-Henri Renoir 1870 Oil on canvas, 81 x 64.1 cm Private collection Companion: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Pierre Henri Renoir 1870 Fogg Museum, Cambridge     See also: • Renoir, Pierre Henri (1832-1903)

Madame Pierre Henri Renoir (1870)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Pierre Henri Renoir 1870 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA This is one of two pendant portraits that Renoir painted of his elder brother, Pierre Henri, and his wife, Blanche-Marie Blanc…

Victor Chocquet assis (c.1877)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Victor Chocquet assis (Victor Chocquet Seated) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 38.1 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus See also: • Chocquet, Victor (1821-1891)

Victor Chocquet (c.1877)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Victor Chocquet c.1877 Oil on canvas, 35.24 x 27.31 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Early in his artistic career, Cézanne became associated with painters including Pissarro, Monet, Renoir, and Degas. He learned the theories and techniques of…