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, 53.3 x 64.8 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…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les enfants du pêcheur (The Fisherman’s Children) 1867 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid The special appeal of this rather small canvas is threefold: It combines a calm beach at low tide with an…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Comblat-le-Château, le pré, Opus 161 (Comblat-le-Château, the Meadow, Opus 161) 1887 Oil on canvas, 66.36 × 82.55 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas A meadow dotted with trees is separated from a rustic house by a low fence. A…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Prairies du Valhermeil près Pontoise (Meadows of Valhermeil near Pontoise) 1874 Oil on canvas, 55 x 92 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires See also: • Pontoise (France) | Valhermeil (Auvers-sur-Oise)
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Veduta di Pirna dalla fortezza di Sonnenstein (View of Pirna from the Sonnenstein Castle) 1750s Oil on canvas, 136 × 237 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Compare: Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) Veduta di Pirna in Sassonia 1763 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les prairies à Giverny (Meadows at Giverny) 1888 Oil on canvas, 92.5 x 81.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Monet first moved to Giverny in 1883, and was to spent the whole of the second of his…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Dans la prairie (In the Meadow) 1888–1892 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1888 and 1892 Renoir painted a number of works in which the same pair of girls—the…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) 1478–1482 Tempera and oil on panel, 68 x 102 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington About three dozen people gather in a grassy field to either side of a crumbling structure to…