Tag: light

La Famille Henriot (c.1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Famille Henriot (Henriot Family) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 115.6 x 164.1 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Daytrips to the countryside around Paris became a popular form of leisure during the late 19th century. Renoir alludes to this kind…

La crucifixión (1627)

Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) La crucifixión (The Crucifixion) 1627 Oil on canvas, 290.3 × 165.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Beginning in the mid-sixteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church clarified and reaffirmed its doctrine and practices in an effort to…

Invention de monstres (c.1937)

Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Invention de monstres (Invention of monsters) c.1937 Oil on canvas, 51.4 x 78.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2018 Salvador Dalí, Surrealism’s most publicized…

Meules de blé, fin de l’été (1891)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Meules de blé, fin de l’été (Stacks of Wheat, End of Summer) 1891 Oil on canvas, 60 × 100.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The monumental stacks that Claude Monet depicted in his series Stacks of Wheat…

Frances, Countess of Dartmouth (1756)

Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Frances, Countess of Dartmouth 1756 Oil on canvas, 127 x 102 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The present portrait of Frances, Countess of Dartmouth was acquired for the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection in 1977 from the UK art market. As with…

Plaza de la Merced, Ronda (1910)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Plaza de la Merced, Ronda 1910 Oil on panel, 64.6 x 52 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection After travelling through northern Europe in the summer of 1910, Childe Hassam and his wife journeyed to Spain, where…

September Clouds (c.1891)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) September Clouds c.1891 Pastel on canvas, 50.8 x 61 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection After three years study in Europe, Childe Hassam returned to the United States in the fall of 1889. The following spring he…