Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Banquises (Ice Floes) 1893 Oil on canvas, 66 x 100.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The prolonged freeze and heavy snowfalls in the winter of 1892–93 inspired Monet to capture their effects on the Seine…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les quatre arbres (The Four Trees) 1891 Oil on canvas, 81.9 x 81.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During summer and fall 1891 Monet painted a series of views of poplars along the Epte River,…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Régates à Argenteuil (Regatta at Argenteuil) 1874 Oil on canvas, 32.4 x 45.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: Argenteuil (France)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Rameurs à Chatou (Oarsmen at Chatou) 1879 Oil on canvas, 81.2 x 100.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Close to us, a woman and two men stand on a grassy riverbank looking out at the expanse…
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) Maria Bockenolle, Wife of Johannes Elison 1634 Oil on canvas, 174.9 x 124.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Maria Bockenolle was Dutch but lived in England; here she is dressed according to English fashion. Her broad-brimmed hat,…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Reverend Johannes Elison 1634 Oil on canvas, 174 x 124.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Reverend Johannes Elison was the minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Norwich, England; his wife, Maria Bockenolle, is represented in…
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…