Tag: light

Vaches dans un pré (c.1883)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vaches dans un pré (Cows in a meadow) c.1883 Oil on panel, 15.5 x 24 cm Private collection Vaches dans un pré was painted around 1883 and is one of Georges Seurat‘s so-called croquetons, pictures created on wooden…

Isola di San Giorgio (1948)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Isola di San Giorgio (The Island of San Giorgio Maggiore) 1948 Oil on canvas, 35 x 50 cm Private collection See also: • San Giorgio Maggiore (Venezia)

Vue du village de Giverny (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vue du village de Giverny (View of the village of Giverny) Oil on canvas, 65.8 x 81.9 cm 1886 Private collection In 1886, the year that Monet painted this lively view over the farmhouses and fields of Giverny,…

La Rue Saint-Lazare, temps lumineux (1893)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La Rue Saint-Lazare, temps lumineux (Rue Saint-Lazare, bright weather) 1893 Oil on canvas, 73.2 x 60.2 cm Private collection “He watches the flow of life move by, majestic and dazzling. He admires the eternal beauty and the astonishing…

Henry James (1913)

Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Henry James 1913 Oil on canvas, 85.1 x 67.3 cm National Portrait Gallery, London See also: • James, Henry (1843-1916)

Le Jardin de l’artiste à Argenteuil (1873)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Jardin de l’artiste à Argenteuil / Les Dahlias (The Artist’s Garden in Argenteuil, A Corner of the Garden with Dahlias) 1873 Oil on canvas, 61 x 82.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A bank of flowering bushes,…

Le Jardin de l’artiste à Vétheuil (1881)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Jardin de l’artiste à Vétheuil (The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil) 1881 Oil on canvas, 151.5 x 121 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A small child stands facing us on a sun-dappled path that runs up the center…

Le déjeuner (1868-1869)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le déjeuner (The Luncheon) 1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 231.5 x 151 cm Städel Museum, Frankfurt Art history would probably have taken a different course if the jury of the Paris Salon had not turned down this painting by Monet…

Portrait de Jeanne Wenz (1886)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Portrait de Jeanne Wenz (Portrait of Jeanne Wenz) 1886 Oil on canvas, 80.7 × 59.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painted this portrait when he was only 22 years old and still an art…