Tag: reflection

Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist (c.1470-1475)

Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist (reverse) c.1470–1475 Oil on panel, 30.2 x 23 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Obverse: Memling, Hans (c.1430-1494) Saint Veronica c.1470–1475 National Gallery of Art, Washington    

Wivenhoe Park, Essex (1816)

Constable, John (1776-1837) Wivenhoe Park, Essex 1816 Oil on canvas, 56.1 x 101.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look out onto a landscape with low, grassy hills to the left, a lake to the right, and a brick building in…

Skiffs (1877)

Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Skiffs 1877 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto the surface of a river in which three narrow canoes, each paddled by a single person, are being rowed toward…

Les Baigneuses (1854)

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Les Baigneuses (Bathers) 1854 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 79.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford At the height of his career, Eugène Delacroix was challenged by a patron in 1854 to paint a scene of female bathers in a forest…

L’église de Vernon (1883)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’église de Vernon (The Church at Vernon) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.4 cm Private collection “One day, when I happened to be in Vernon, I found the silhouette of the church so remarkable that I absolutely…

Nymphéas (1907)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Nymphéas (Water Lilies) 1907 Oil on canvas, 81 x 92 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford