Tag: river

Landscape with a Castle (c.1640-1642)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Landscape with a Castle c.1640–1642 Oil on panel, 44 x 60 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Painting visibly left in a certain state of incompleteness (the sky by contrast was painted first and is colored and finished): Rembrandt…

Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (1668)

Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (Venus schenkt wapens aan Aeneas) 1668 Oil on canvas, 161.8 x 165.8 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp In the 17th century, classicism broke through, also in golden Holland. Artists…

Charles River and Beacon Hill (c.1892)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Charles River and Beacon Hill c.1892 Oil on canvas, 40.96 x 45.72 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In Charles River and Beacon Hill Hassam employed the radical compositional effects that he had seen in French painting to…

London Bridge (1906)

Derain, André (1880-1954) London Bridge 1906 Oil on canvas, 66 x 99.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In 1905, French painter André Derain was commissioned by his art dealer Ambroise Vollard to paint views of London. Derain set up…

Pont sur le Riou (1906)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Pont sur le Riou (Bridge over the Riou) 1906 Oil on canvas, 82.6 x 101.6 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York Although Bridge over the Riou describes a place in the south of France, its complexly patterned…

Charing Cross Bridge (1905-1906)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Charing Cross Bridge 1905–1906 Oil on canvas, 81.7 x 100.7 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York In this cityscape Derain rendered the customary gray of the London sky with dramatic color. In the summer of 1905 he…

Charing Cross Bridge, London (1906)

Derain, André (1880-1954) Charing Cross Bridge, London 1906 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 100.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look across river at a bridge with a city skyline beyond in this stylized, horizontal landscape, which is painted entirely…