Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Square de la Trinité 1878–1879 Oil on canvas, 54.3 x 65.4 cm Private collection Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Square de la Trinité depicts a Parisian park on a gloriously sunny morning. Populated by elegant figures, this verdant park is lush…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Green Park, London 1870 or 1871 Oil on canvas, 34.3 × 72.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Detail of Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington, and his equestrian statue. See also: • London (England) | Wellington…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Femme assise sur un banc (Woman Seated on a Bench) c.1874 Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 55.9 cm Tate Britain, London This picture has also been known under such titles as ‘In the Park’, ‘Woman in a Park’…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) London from Greenwich Park exhibited 1809 Oil on canvas, 90.2 x 120 cm Tate Britain, London Like the view from Richmond Hill, that upstream towards the City from Greenwich Park is one of the most prized…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Vue du Parc Montsouris, Le Kiosque (View of the Montsouris Park, The Kiosk) c.1908–1910 Oil on canvas, 65.7 x 79.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Here we see a group of people strolling through the Parc Montsouris, one of four…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Jour d’été (Summer’s Day) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 45.7 × 75.2 cm National Gallery, London This painting was almost certainly exhibited with the title The Lake in the Bois de Boulogne at the Fifth Impressionist exhibition in April…
Constable, John (1776-1837) Wivenhoe Park, Essex 1816 Oil on canvas, 56.1 x 101.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look out onto a landscape with low, grassy hills to the left, a lake to the right, and a brick building in…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Un Coin du plateau de Bellevue, automne, soleil couchant (A Corner of the Park at Bellevue, Autumn, Sunset) 1902 Oil on canvas, 61.6 x 50.8 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • Bellevue, Meudon (France)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Conversation in a Park (Gainsborough and his wife?) c.1746–1748 Oil on canvas, 73 × 68 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris An early example of a conversation piece by Gainsborough. Often compared with Gainsborough‘s drawn portrait, from the same…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Thérèse lisant dans le parc de Méric (Thérèse reading in the park of Méric) 1867 Oil on canvas 92 x 59.2 cm Private collection The subject of this work was Bazille’s cousin and primary subject for many of…