Tag: peasant

Innocence (1898)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Innocence 1898 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 58 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

Head of a Peasant Woman (1884)

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 Vincent van Gogh always felt deep sympathy for the peasant classes and here tenderly depicted the full, sunburnt features…

Bords de l’Oise à Auvers (1863)

Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Bords de l’Oise à Auvers (Banks of the Oise at Auvers) 1863 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 161.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Colorfully dressed peasants, who fish on the riverbank alongside rafts of water lilies, animate…

La Vie paysanne (1925)

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.…

Cottage Children (1787)

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…

Paysans dans les champs, Éragny (1890)

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.…

Paisaje (Granja europea)

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Paisaje, Granja europea (Lanscape, European Farm) s.d. Watercolour on paper, 17.5 x 25 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Watercolour from the European period, from Rezábal Bustillo, with a picturesque motif. The scene of the…