Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Éclaireurs attaqués par un tigre (Scouts Attacked by a Tiger) 1904 Oil on canvas, 121.6 x 161.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Self-taught artist Henri Rousseau created his enormous jungle scenes by studying the plants and taxidermy animals in Paris‘s…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Une soirée au carnaval (Carnival Evening) 1886 Oil on canvas, 117.3 x 89.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia An air of mystery pervades this wintry forest landscape. Dressed in festive carnival costumes, a lone couple stands in…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Rendez-vous dans la forêt (Rendezvous in the Forest) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Beyond a dense screen of stylized, dark brown tree trunks, bending branches, and sage and moss-green leaves, a…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Glass of Wine (Het glas wijn) 1658–1660 Oil on canvas, 67.7 x 79.6 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin In the reflection of cool daylight, which penetrates from the left, especially through the front of the two windows, a young…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Girl with the Wineglass (Maedchen mit weinglas) c.1658–1659 Oil on canvas, 78 x 67 cm Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig Compare: Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Glass of Wine 1658–1660 Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Officer and Laughing Girl (De soldaat en het lachende meisje) c.1657 Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 46 cm Frick Collection, New York In what may be one of the first works of his mature style, Vermeer transforms the…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Girl interrupted at Her Music (Onderbreking van de muziek) c.1658–1659 Oil on canvas, 39.4 x 44.5 cm Frick Collection, New York Music-making, a recurring subject in Vermeer’s interior scenes, was associated in the seventeenth century with courtship. In…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Concert (Het concert) 1663–1666 Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 64.7 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston In a pristine domestic parlor, two women and a man concentrate on making music. The standing woman holds a sheet of…
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) View of Delft (Gezicht op Delft) c.1660–1661 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 115.7 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague View of Delft today: This is the most famous cityscape of the Dutch seventeenth century. The interplay of light and shade,…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La promenade (The Walk) 1870 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles What Pierre-Auguste Renoir himself titled this painting is unknown, but La Promenade is in part an homage to earlier artists whom he greatly…