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…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) The Sea Maidens 1885–1886 Oil on canvas, 81.8 x 142.8 cm De Morgan Collection This group of five mermaids is linked to the story of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson. The little mermaid falls in…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) The Little Sea Maid 1880–1888 Oil on canvas, 100.2 x 73.4 cm De Morgan Collection Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid (1855), which is the much loved story of the Sea King’s daughter who rescues…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) Cadmus and Harmonia 1877 Oil on canvas, 148.5 x 89.5 cm De Morgan Collection The subject of the painting is from Ovid‘s ‘Metamorphoses‘ (Book IV, 563–603). After Cadmus is changed into a serpent by Mars, his wife…
