Tag: light

Le Parlement, Symphonie en rose (1900)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Parlement, Symphonie en rose (The Parliament, Symphony in Rose) 1900 Oil on canvas, 82 x 92.6 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone See also: • Palace of Westminster (London)

La famille paysanne (1871-1872)

Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La famille paysanne (The peasant family) 1871–1872 Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 81 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The British painter Sickert commented: ‘The sublime man and his stolid spouse face the spectator with all the gravity and symmetry…

Argenteuil, Bateau (1874)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Argenteuil, Bateau (Argenteuil, Boat) 1874 Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 81.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Manet painted this study out of doors, ‘en plein air’, at the resort of Argenteuil, down the Seine from Paris. In overcast weather,…

L’Immortalité (1889)

Fantin-Latour, Henri (1836-1904) L’Immortalité (Immortality) 1889 Oil on canvas, 116.2 x 87.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The personification of Immortality holds the palm of victory and scatters flowers onto a tomb inscribed ‘DELACROIX’. Behind, the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral…

L’église de Vers (1912)

Derain, André (1880-1954) L’église de Vers (The Church at Vers) 1912 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 92.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Vers, Lot (France)