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…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les Enfants luttant (Children Wrestling) 1888 Oil on canvas, 93 x 73 cm Louvre, Abu Dhabi Gauguin (1848–1903) discovered Japanese prints in 1887 through Vincent van Gogh. In 1888, for this Breton wrestling match, he adopted the aesthetic of…
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Printemps dans le pré (Spring in the Meadow) 1961 Chromolithography on paper, 42 x 64 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Adorazione di Gesù Bambino (Adoration of the Christ Child) c.1480 Tempera on canvas, diameter 33 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Filippino Lippi was the son of the artist-monk, Fra Filippo Lippi, and himself a pupil of Botticelli. This…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Femme et enfant dans le jardin de Bougival (Woman and child in the garden at Bougival) 1882 Oil on canvas, 60.1 x 73.3 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Art critic Gustave Geffroy said ‘no one represents Impressionism with…
Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461) San Francesco riceve le stimmate (Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata) c.1445–1450 Tempera on poplar panel, 27.5 x 30.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a landscape with chiseled, rocky mountains beyond a grassy meadow and stream, two…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino e un angelo (The Virgin and Child with an Angel) c.1496–1500 Oil and egg temera on poplar, 114 x 63.5 cm National Gallery, London This was the central panel of the predella of an altarpiece made for…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Prato (Madonna of the meadow) 1505–1506 Oil on poplar, 113 × 88.3 × 3.5 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Inscription on the hem of Mary’s dress with the year M.d.V. (perhaps also M.D.V.I. to be read) The group,…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Promenade dans les prés à Argenteuil (A Walk in the Meadows at Argenteuil) 1873 Oil on canvas, 32.4 x 49.2 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • Argenteuil (France) | Doncieux, Camille (1847-1879) | Monet, Jean (1867-1914)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Rocky, Wooded Landscape with a Dell and Weir c.1782–1783 Oil on canvas, 70.5 x 91 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gainsborough collected and was inspired by Dutch landscape painting. In a sketchy manner, Gainsborough convincingly singled out…