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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…

Conversation sous les oliviers (1921)

Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Conversation sous les oliviers (Conversation under the Olive Trees) 1921 Oil on canvas, 100 x 82 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Succession H. Matisse / VEGAP, Madrid Carmen Thyssen Collection Beneath their tranquil surface, Matisse‘s paintings often conceal a…

Route de Gennevilliers (1883)

Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Route de Gennevilliers (Road to Gennevilliers) 1883 Oil on canvas, 73 x 91.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Gennevilliers (France)

Jalais Hill, Pontoise (1867)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Jalais Hill, Pontoise 1867 Oil on canvas, 87 x 114.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This view of Pontoise, just northwest of Paris, helped establish Pissarro’s reputation as an innovative painter of the rural French landscape. The…