Tag: light

Nature morte (1867)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Nature morte (Still Life) 1867 Oil on canvas, 81 x 99.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “Don’t bother trying to look for something new: you won’t find novelty in the subject matter, but in the way you…

Sunlight on the Coast (1890)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Sunlight on the Coast 1890 Oil on canvas, 116.8 × 163.8 × 12.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Winslow Homer skillfully conveys nature’s power with almost violent stabs and dabs of his brush representing waves crashing against…

London Visitors (c.1874)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors c.1874 Oil on canvas, 160 × 114.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Outside the National Gallery in London a fashionable tourist couple decides what to see next. The woman points her umbrella imperiously in the…

Crepuscule in Opal, Trouville (1865)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Crepuscule in Opal, Trouville 1865 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 46 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Though born in Massachusetts, Whistler spent most of his career in Europe, first in Paris, then settling in London…

The Campo Santo, Venice (1842)

Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Campo Santo, Venice 1842 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 92.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Venice is radiant, if somewhat shabby, in Joseph Mallord William Turner’s view north across the Venetian Lagoon. The city…

La Belle Iseult (1858)

Morris, William (1834-1896) La Belle Iseult 1858 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married…

The Love Song (1868-1877)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Love Song 1868–1877 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 155.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Burne-Jones associated this painting with a refrain from a French folk ballad: “Alas, I know a love song, / Sad or…

La mort de Socrate (after 1787)

David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) & Studio La mort de Socrate (The Death of Socrates) after 1787 Oil on canvas, 133 x 196 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton David depicts Socrates about to drink hemlock rather than endure exile after being convicted…