Tag: MET

Le Pont de Passy et la Tour Eiffel (1911)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Pont de Passy et la Tour Eiffel (The Pont de Passy and the Eiffel Tower) 1911 Oil on canvas, 60.3 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Lines and planes converge at the center of…

La place du marché, Vitebsk (1917)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La place du marché, Vitebsk (The Marketplace, Vitebsk) 1917 Oil on canvas, 66 × 97.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York After training and exhibiting his art in Paris, Chagall returned to his hometown Vitebsk in 1914…

Chrysanthèmes au jardin du Petit-Gennevilliers (1893)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Chrysanthèmes au jardin du Petit-Gennevilliers (Chrysanthemums in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers) 1893 Oil on canvas, 99.4 × 61.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Although Caillebotte was a lifelong gardener, his interest in floral subjects did not…

La Morte di Cleopatra (c.1645-1655)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) c.1645–1655 Oil on canvas, 95 × 75 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The subject, from Plutarch’s Lives (1st century A.D.), is Cleopatra’s suicide by an asp bite following the…

A Woodland Road with Travelers (1607)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) A Woodland Road with Travelers 1607 Oil on wood, 46 x 83.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan, who was born shortly before the death of his famous father, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, advanced…

Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld (1630s)

Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld 1630s Oil on copper, 26.7 x 35.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This infernal image of the 1630s was inspired by the “hell landscapes” of Jan Brueghel…

A Basket of Flowers (1620s)

Brueghel, Jan the Younger (1601-1678) A Basket of Flowers probably 1620s Oil on wood, 47 x 68.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan Brueghel the Younger was part of an artistic dynasty that transformed Flemish landscape, genre, and still-life…

Portrait de Mlle Quivoron (1860-1914)

Bracquemond, Marie (1840-1916) Portrait de Mlle Quivoron (Portrait of Mlle Quivoron) 1860–1914 Etching, drypoint, 39 × 26.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is a portrait of Louise, Marie Bracquemond‘s sister, who lived with the artist and her husband…