Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 46.2 x 65.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bougival (France)
La Seine à Bougival (1873)
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Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne (1872)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne (The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne) 1872 Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Recently built, state-of-the-art bridges, emblematic of modernity, appear in a number of Sisley’s paintings of the 1870s…
Visitazione (c.1517)
Raffaello (1483-1520) & assistants Visitazione (Visitation) c.1517 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 200 x 145 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Virgin Mary visits her cousin, Elisabeth, who is pregnant with Saint John, as told in the New Testament (Luke…
Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (1881)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (Two Sisters, On the Terrace) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 × 80.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “He loves everything that is joyous, brilliant, and consoling in life,” an anonymous interviewer once…
Wapping (1860-1864)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Wapping 1860–1864 Oil on canvas, 72 x 101.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a…
The Lime Burner (1859)
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) The Lime Burner 1859 Etching and drypoint on laid paper, 25.4 x 17.8 cm Victoria and Albert Museum, London During his formative years in Paris in the 1850s, Whistler was influenced by the injunctions of the…
La Duquesa de Alba (1797)
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) La Duquesa de Alba (The Duchess of Alba) 1797 Oil on canvas, 210.3 x 149.3 cm Hispanic Society of America, New York Inscribed bottom center and left (in the soil): “Solo Goya / 1797” Francisco de Goya…
Partie de bateau (c.1877-1878)
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Partie de bateau, dit Canotier au chapeau haut de forme (Boating Party, or Canotier with the top hat) c.1877–1878 Oil on canvas, 89.5 x 116.7 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris « Partie de bateau » or « Canotier au…
Périssoires sur l’Yerres (1877)
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Périssoires sur l’Yerres (Boating on the Yerres) 1877 Oil on canvas, 103.51 x 155.89 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Gustave Caillebotte associated with Monet and Degas as an art student and, beginning in the mid-1870s, became one of…
L’Yerres, effet de pluie (1875)
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) L’Yerres, effet de pluie (The Yerres, Effect of Rain) 1875 Oil on canvas, 80.3 x 59.1 cm Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington