Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) Le Sommeil des Paysans (The Sleep of the Peasants) c.1808–1812 Oil on wood panel, 77.5 x 57.1 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Impatient with studio routine, Géricault spent four years teaching himself by copying paintings in the…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) La famille paysanne (The peasant family) 1871–1872 Oil on canvas, 110.4 x 81 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff The British painter Sickert commented: ‘The sublime man and his stolid spouse face the spectator with all the gravity and symmetry…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le coup de vent (The gust of wind) 1871–1873 Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 117.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Le Petit Paysan (The Little Peasant) c.1918 Oil on canvas, 100 × 64.5 cm Tate Britain, London
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Paysans ramenant à la maison un veau né dans les champs (Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields) 1864 Oil on canvas, 81.1 × 100 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Compare: Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Ramenant à…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Innocence 1898 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 58 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Head of a Peasant Woman 1884 Oil on canvas, 43.8 x 34.6 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La Vie paysanne (Peasant Life) 1925 Oil on canvas, 100.01 x 80.01 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Marc Chagall was born into a Hasidic Jewish family in an area of the Russian Empire that is now Belarus.…
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers) 1787 Oil on canvas, 147.6 x 120.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Well-to-do art collectors of the eighteenth century enjoyed “fancy pictures” such as this, which provided an idealized and sentimental…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Paysans dans les champs, Éragny (Peasants in the Fields, Éragny) 1890 Oil on canvas, 64.45 x 80.33 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Later in his career, Camille Pissarro was deeply affected by Georges Seurat’s theories and techniques.…