Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Silver Favourites c.1903 Oil on panel, 110 X 71 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester The verse on the frame is from Wordsworth‘s poem ‘Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase’. See also: • Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885) Paysage avec un burg en ruine au bord d’un étang dont on distingue l’autre rive (Landscape with a ruined burg at the edge of a pond, the other side of which can be seen) 1842 Pen and…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Étang à Ville-d’Avray (Pond at Ville-d’Avray) late 1860s Oil on fabric, 58.1 x 99.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland The dreamlike quality of the painting reflects Corot’s desire to reproduce the “first Impression” of the landscape. Corot…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les nymphéas (Water Lilies) 1906 Oil on canvas, 89.9 × 94.1 cm cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “One instant, one aspect of nature contains it all,” said Claude Monet, referring to his late masterpieces, the water landscapes…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) L’étang dans la forêt (The Pond in the Forest) c.1867–1868 Oil on canvas, 33.5 x 41.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Degas‘ reputation as a painter of the modern human form had completely eclipsed that of the landscapist, and…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Nymphéas (Water Lilies) 1907 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 89.2 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Étang aux nénuphars (Water Lily Pond) 1899 Oil on canvas, 88.6 x 91.9 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La mare aux canards (The Duck Pond) 1873 Oil on canvas, 50.48 × 60.96 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Renoir and Monet began portraying the same landscape in 1869, when they simultaneously painted at the famous…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) L’étang de Ville-d’Avray (The pond at Ville d’Avray) 1865–1870 Oil on canvas, 40 x 61.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Lulled by the morning light, a young girl sits by a pond, with two…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Trois femmes tahitiennes (Three Tahitian Women) 1896 Oil on canvas, 24.4 x 43.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This panel once carried a note by the artist: “To the unknown collector of my works, Greetings—…