Duccio di Buoninsegna (c.1255-c.1319) La vocazione degli apostoli Pietro e Andrea (The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew) 1308–1311 Tempera on panel, 42.7 × 45.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This painting was part of the predella (the bottom tier)…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Plage en Normandie (Beach in Normandy) c.1872–1875 Oil on canvas, 61.3 x 90.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Towering, sheer cliffs loom to our left, over a sunny beach scattered with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Bateaux sur une plage, Étretat (Boats on a Beach, Etretat) c.1872–1875 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 91.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • Étretat (France)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Grotte de la Loue (The Cave of the Loue) 1864 Oil on canvas, 98.4 x 130.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Courbet painted events and scenery primarily from his native Ornans, a village in the remote Franche-Comté…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Les Roches Noires à Trouville (The Black Rocks at Trouville) 1865–1866 Oil on canvas, 50 × 61 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We stand on a beach lined with black rocks and boulders looking out onto the water…
Géricault, Théodore (1791-1824) La Charette (The Coal Wagon) c.1821 Pen and brown ink with watercolor on white paper, 18.7 x 29.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Effet coucher de soleil: le rivage à Trouville (Sunset Effect: The Shore at Trouville) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 101.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In the mid-1860s, Courbet visited the fashionable resort of Trouville on the Normandy…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Alone with the Tide (Coast of Brittany) 1861 Oil on canvas, 87.3 x 115.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted this seascape in Brittany, on the northwest coast of France. He focused on…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Baigneuse au bord de la mer (Bather by the sea) 1939 Gouache on laid paper, 64.1 × 46.4 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Bather by the Sea is readily identified as Dora Maar by the shoulder-length dark hair,…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) La Solitude (Loneliness) 1931 Oil on canvas, 35.2 x 27.2 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford “Solitude” was the first painting by Dalí to enter a museum collection anywhere in the world, and it is typical of his earliest, often…