Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey c.1883 Oil on canvas, 29.2 x 54 cm National Gallery, London This picture shows the view across Moulin Huet Bay on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Renoir seems to have recreated the…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bust of a Man in Oriental Dress 1633 Oil on oak, 85.8 x 63.8 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich Paintings of individual figures in Holland in the seventeenth century that were neither portraits nor history paintings are called tronies…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1629 Oil on oak, 15.6 x 12.7 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich This self-portrait of the twenty-three-year-old artist, painted in Leiden, belongs to a series of head studies (Dutch: tronies) in which Rembrandt experimented with light and shadow,…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume 1635 Oil on canvas, 123.5 x 97.5 cm National Gallery, London Saskia van Uylenburgh, the daughter of a burgomaster of Leeuwarden in Friesland, was 23 years old and had been married to…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Judith at the banquet of Holofernes 1634 Oil on canvas, 143 x 154.7 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid In the past various authors have expressed their scepticism about the attribution of the painting to Rembrandt. However, the Rembrandt Research…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Marée basse, Berck (Low Tide, Berck) 1886 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 61.3 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena See also: • Berck (France)
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Vue de Bordeaux (View of Bordeaux, from the Quai des Chartrons) 1874 Oil on fabric, 54.7 x 89.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In 1873, Boudin made his first visit to the important port city of…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le Bassin de Deauville (The Dock of Deauville) 1891 Oil on panel, 46.7 x 37.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland This painting treats a common theme in Boudin‘s mature art, ships at harbor. Boudin typically did…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) L’Hôpital-Camfrout, Bretagne (L’Hôpital-Camfrout, Brittany) c.1870–1872 Oil on wood, 20.3 x 39.4 cm National Gallery, London Boudin was born and brought up on the Normandy coast, retaining a lifelong affection for the area, which he painted throughout his career.…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Blanchisseuses près d’un ruisseau (Laundresses by a Stream) c.1885–1890 Oil on wood, 17.8 x 22.9 cm National Gallery, London Boudin is most famous for his scenes of well-to-do holidaymakers on the beaches of the fashionable Normandy resorts of…