Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Fleurs de printemps, La Cruche aux fleurs de printemps (Spring Flowers, The Jug of Spring Flowers) 1930 Oil on canvas, 72 x 60.6 cm Private collection Executed in 1930 during Chagall’s transformative second period in France, Fleurs de…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Jardin de l’artiste à Vétheuil (The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil) 1881 Oil on canvas, 151.5 x 121 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A small child stands facing us on a sun-dappled path that runs up the center…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Tanagra (The Builders, New York) 1918 Oil on canvas, 149.2 x 149 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington In Tanagra (The Builders, New York), Childe Hassam painted an ambivalent image of modern life. At the turn of the twentieth…
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Nature morte avec des tournesols sur un fauteuil (Still Life with Sunflowers on an armchair) 1901 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In 1901, when this painting was produced, Gauguin was still living…
Monginot, Charles (1825-1900) Nature morte (Still Life) c.1853 Oil on panel, 202.8 x 260.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) The White Symphony: Three Girls c.1868 Oil on millboard mounted on wood panel, 46.4 x 61.6 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1902.138. This…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Three Figures: Pink and Grey 1868–1878 Oil on canvas, 139.1 x 185.4 cm Tate Britain, London This picture derives from one of six oil sketches that Whistler produced in 1868 as part of a plan for…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) & Studio La mort de Socrate (The Death of Socrates) after 1787 Oil on canvas, 133 x 196 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton David depicts Socrates about to drink hemlock rather than endure exile after being convicted…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) At the Window 1872 Oil on canvas, 57 × 40 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464) The Magdalen Reading c.1435 Oil on mahogany, transferred from another panel, 62.2 × 54.4 cm National Gallery, London A young lady in an extravagant green dress sits on the floor, reading. Although she wears fifteenth-century clothing…