Tag: MFAH

Madame Cézanne en bleu (1888-1890)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Madame Cézanne en bleu (Madame Cézanne in Blue) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 74.1 × 61 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Paul Cézanne produced more than 40 painted portraits of his wife, Hortense Fiquet, during their roughly three decades…

The Dinner Horn (1870)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn 1870 Wood engraving on newsprint, 35.1 x 22.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Compare: Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Blowing the Horn at Seaside 1870 National Gallery of Art, Washington     Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) The Dinner Horn c.1870 Museum…

L’aigle expirant de Waterloo (c.1902)

Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) L’aigle expirant de Waterloo (The Expiring Eagle of Waterloo) c.1902 Gilt bronze mounted on worked granite, 69.2 × 66 × 43.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Compare: Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Aigle expirant modeled c.1900 (cast after 1902) Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago…

Route tournante à L’Estaque (1906)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Route tournante à L’Estaque (The Turning Road, L’Estaque) 1906 Oil on canvas, 129.5 × 194.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston André Derain’s masterpiece The Turning Road, L’Estaque is a major work of the avant-garde art movement called…

Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (c.1730)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice) c.1730 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 73.66 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Painted views of towns and landscapes were enormously popular in the 18th…

Andromède (1852)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Andromède (Andromeda) 1852 Oil on canvas, 33 x 25.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Les orangers (1878)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Les orangers (The Orange Trees) 1878 Oil on canvas, 154.94 x 116.84 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston With brilliant hues of reds, greens, purples, and yellows, laid down in the flickering brushwork typical of Impressionism, Gustave Caillebotte…