Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Paysan avec brouette (Peasant with a Wheelbarrow) 1848–1852 Oil on canvas, 37.8 x 45.4 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Millet was a leading member of the Barbizon School of painters, which rose to prominence around 1850. Often working…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le printemps à Essoyes (Springtime in Essoyes) c.1900 Oil on canvas, 19-3/4 x 24-1/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis See also: • Essoyes (France)
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La danse champêtre (The Country Dance) c.1706–1710 Oil on canvas, 50 x 60.01 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In this, his earliest known painting, Watteau draws inspiration from scenes of fairs, peasant weddings, and country dances by Flemish…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les joies de la maternité (The Joys of Motherhood) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 57 x 38-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Idealized visions of the pleasures of local country life were popularized in the 1740s by Charles-Simon Favart…
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Christ jaune (Yellow Christ) 1889 Oil on canvas, 27-9/16 x 23-5/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis The artists of Pont-Aven were moved by the piety of the Breton people and often painted religious themes. Here Bernard presents Christ…
Hoschedé Monet, Blanche (1865-1947) Paysage, effet de neige, le Val près de Giverny (Landscape, Snow Effect; The Valley near Giverny) 1888 Oil on canvas, 64.1 × 90.8 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Blanche Hoschedé-Monet began painting at the age of…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont japonais (The Japanese Bridge) c.1923–1925 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.21 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis In 1883, Claude Monet moved to Giverny, about forty miles northwest of Paris. For the rest of his life, he…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Fontaine de Vénus (Fountain of Venus) 1756 Oil on canvas, 233 x 215 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Lighthearted, erotic decorative schemes remained popular among the French aristocracy throughout the 1700s. In this painting, part of the…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) La fuga in Egitto (The Flight into Egypt) 1510 Oil on canvas, 151 x 89 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris Attributed to Botticelli, a painter in whom Nélie André was particularly interested, this painting represents a famous biblical episode—the flight…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Portico veneziano (Venetian portico / Imaginary Portico) c.1760 Gouache on paper, 53 x 39 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris The picture combines realism and fantasy, using a technique that was quite unusual for Guardi: gouache on paper, which gives the…