Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Skiffs 1877 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto the surface of a river in which three narrow canoes, each paddled by a single person, are being rowed toward…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) River Landscape 1607 Oil on coppper, 20.7 x 32.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington People gather under trees next to an expansive river dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The people are tiny…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Vue panoramique de Rouen (Panoramic View of Rouen) c.1829–1833 Oil on canvas, 26.4 x 41.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Rouen (France)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’Île aux Orties, Giverny (The Seine at Giverny) 1897 Oil on canvas Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Île aux Orties près de Vernon 1897 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York See also: • Île…
Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Madonna col Bambino (Madonna and Child) c.1483–1484 Tempera, oil, and gold on wood, 81.3 x 59.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Madonna and Child are shown in a contemporary Florentine palace. Through the window is…
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.…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Soleil couchant sur la Seine à Lavacourt, effet d’hiver (Setting Sun on the Seine at Lavacourt, Winter Effect) 1880 Oil on canvas, 100 x 150 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Lavacourt (France)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine, été (Young Women of the banks of the Seine, summer) 1857 Oil on canvas, 174 x 206 cm Petit Palais, Paris