Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Les meules de foin (The Haystacks) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92 x 73.3 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In the 1880s, Paul Gauguin made several extended trips to Brittany in western France, attracted by the region’s remoteness and…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Environs de Pont-Aven (Outskirts of Pont-Aven) c.1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 54.5 x 65 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In the late 1880s, Pierre-Auguste Renoir made several visits to Pont-Aven, an artists’ colony in Brittany where Paul Gauguin…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) La maison du péage (The Toll Gate) c.1890 Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 32.75 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This is the only known painting in which the amateur artist Henri Rousseau referenced his employment as a tax…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Neige à Louveciennes (Snow at Louveciennes) c.1874 Oil on canvas, 46.3 x 55.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Louveciennes lies about sixteen kilometres west of Paris. Sisley painted many views of and around this village in the…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Rue à Sannois (Street in Sannois) c.1912 Oil on canvas, 54 x 81 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Maurice Utrillo is known for his depictions of Paris and its outskirts, in which figures are often incidental or completely…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Hyde Park, London c.1871 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 74 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • London (England)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Rue de village (Village Street) 1909–1910 Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 35.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Ferme en Provence (Farmhouse in Provence) 1888 Oil on canvas 46.1 x 60.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington F 565, JH 1443 Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888, the landscape covered with snow. But it…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La Seine à Paris (The Seine River in Paris) 1883 Oil on canvas, 35.56 × 27.94 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas See also: • Paris (France)
Miró, Joan (1893-1983) La masía (The Farm) 1921–1922 Oil on canvas, 123.8 x 141.3 x 3.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Miró moved from Barcelona to Paris in 1920, determined to participate in the artistic vanguard of the French capital.…