Tag: reflection

Our Lady of Peace (1907)

De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Our Lady of Peace 1907 Oil on canvas, 195.2 x 100.2 cm De Morgan Collection This painting is in response to the Boer war. In Our Lady of Peace we see a Christian knight, who is about…

Portrait de Eva Gonzalès à Dieppe (c.1880)

Guérard-Gonzalès, Jeanne (1852-1924) Portrait de Eva Gonzalès à Dieppe (Portrait of Eva Gonzalès in Dieppe) c.1880 Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Private collection Born to an artistic and literary family, Jeanne Guérard-Gonzalès was the daughter of Emmanuel Gonzalès,…

Le bouquet de violettes (c.1877-1878)

Gonzalès, Eva (1849-1883) Le bouquet de violettes (The Bouquet of Violets) c.1877–1878 Pastel on wove paper, 25.1 x 19.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gonzalès’s sister Jeanne, who was also an artist, probably posed for this scene. Women in the…

Rochers à Belle-Île, Port-Domois (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Rochers à Belle-Île, Port-Domois (Rocks at Belle-Île, Port-Domois) 1886 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Port-Domois, Belle-Isle 1887 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven     See also: • Belle-Île-en-Mer (France)

Port-Domois, Belle-Isle (1887)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Port-Domois, Belle-Isle 1887 Oil on canvas, 64.8 × 81.3 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Rochers à Belle-Île, Port-Domois 1886 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati     See also: • Belle-Île-en-Mer (France)

Le bateau-atelier (1874)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le bateau-atelier (Monet’s studio-boat) 1874 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 65.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo In the open air In 1841, zinc paint tubes appeared for the first time, making painting in the open air a lot simpler.…

Personnages dans un intérieur: L’intimité (1896)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Personnages dans un intérieur: L’intimité (Figures in an Interior: Intimacy) 1896 Glue-based paint on canvas Petit Palais, Paris Intimacy is one of four panels painted by Vuillard for the apartment of Doctor Henri Vaquez (1860-1936) in Paris. This cardiologist,…

Vuillard au col blanc (1888)

Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Vuillard au col blanc (Self-portrait with White Collar) 1888 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 31 cm Private collection This beautiful 1888 self-portrait of Edouard Vuillard is a prescient expression of the Nabi painter’s intimist talent that would…