Tag: road

A Woodland Road with Travelers (1607)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) A Woodland Road with Travelers 1607 Oil on wood, 46 x 83.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Jan, who was born shortly before the death of his famous father, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, advanced…

Chemin montant, rue de la Côte-du-Jalet, Pontoise (1875)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Chemin montant, rue de la Côte-du-Jalet, Pontoise (The Climb, Rue de la Côte-du-Jalet, Pontoise) 1875 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.7 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York In this painting, Camille Pissarro departs from the legible perspectives of traditional…

La route de Versailles, Louveciennes (1869)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La route de Versailles, Louveciennes (Route to Versailles, Louveciennes) 1869 Oil on canvas, 38.4 x 46.3 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Compare: Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La route de Versailles, Louveciennes, matin gel 1871 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas     See…

La maison du docteur Gachet à Auvers (c.1873)

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) La maison du docteur Gachet à Auvers (The House of Doctor Gachet in Auvers) c.1873 Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris The house of Doctor Gachet in Auvers. See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France) | Gachet, Paul (1828-1909)

Vue de Volterra (1838)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Vue de Volterra (View of Volterra) 1838 Oil on canvas, 32.2 x 24.4 cm Timken Museum of Art, San Diego In 1834, on his second trip to Italy, Corot spent a month in the 14th century hill town…

La Corniche près de Monaco (1884)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Corniche près de Monaco (La Corniche near Monaco) 1884 Oil on canvas, 75 x 94 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam In Monet’s time La Corniche was a narrow mountain track; nowadays, it is the main road between Nice and…

Arlésiennes, Mistral (1888)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Arlésiennes (Mistral) 1888 Oil on jute canvas, 73 × 92 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago One of seventeen canvases that Paul Gauguin completed during a brief and tumultuous visit with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, this powerful…