Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Champ de coquelicots près de Vétheuil (Poppy field near Vétheuil) c.1879 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Bührle Collection, Zürich See also: • Vétheuil (France)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Vignobles à Auvers (Vineyards at Auvers) 1890 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 80.3 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis This canvas focuses on the twisted forms of grapevines depicted with Vincent van Gogh’s characteristic, heavily loaded brushstroke.…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Ophelia 1851–1852 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 111.8 cm Tate Britain, London The scene depicted is from Shakespeare‘s Hamlet, Act IV, Scene vii, in which Ophelia, driven out of her mind when her father is murdered by…
Constable, John (1776-1837) The Cornfield 1826 Oil on canvas, 143 × 122 cm National Gallery, London A boy has paused from the thirsty work of herding sheep at noon to lie flat on the bank of a pool and drink its…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Spring 1894 Oil on canvas, 178.4 × 80.3 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles Barefoot young women and children adorned with flower crowns and playing musical instruments lead a procession through a city built of marble. Splashes of color,…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix c.1864–1870 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 66 cm Tate Britain, London Dante Gabriel Rossetti identified closely with the medieval poet Dante Alighieri. Rossetti saw his own despair at the death of his wife, the artist and…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Champs de coquelicots près d’Argenteuil (Poppy Fields near Argenteuil) 1875 Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work is one of four similar views of the plain of Gennevilliers, just…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vue de Vétheuil (View of Vétheuil) 1880 Oil on canvas, 80 x 60.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The footpath winding through the poppy field at bottom right points the way toward the church tower…