Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Rameurs à Chatou (Oarsmen at Chatou) 1879 Oil on canvas, 81.2 x 100.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Close to us, a woman and two men stand on a grassy riverbank looking out at the expanse…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les toits du Vieux Nice (The Roofs of Old Nice) c.1911–1919 Oil on canvas Musée Renoir, Cagnes-sur-Mer The old town seen from Renoir‘s house. See also: • Nice (France)
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Rainy Day, Boston 1885 Oil on canvas, 66.3 x 122 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “I am never tired of observing [people] in every-day life…. Humanity in motion is a constant study to me.” —Childe Hassam…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Columbus Avenue, Rainy Day 1885 Oil on canvas. 43.5 x 53.7 cm Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Reflections glinting off carriage wheels and the rain-slickened pavement add vibrancy to this scene of a wet day along Boston’s busy Columbus…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Charles River and Beacon Hill c.1892 Oil on canvas, 40.96 x 45.72 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In Charles River and Beacon Hill Hassam employed the radical compositional effects that he had seen in French painting to…
Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Allies Day, May 1917 1917 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 76.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A patriotic whirlwind overtook mid–town Manhattan as America entered the First World War in the spring of 1917. On Fifth Avenue,…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le Port de Bruxelles (Brussels Harbour) 1871 Oil on canvas, 42 x 65 cm National Gallery, London During the Franco-Prussian War in the winter of 1870–71, Boudin left Paris to avoid the fighting. But unlike his friend Monet,…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Petites maisons près de Pontoise (Small Houses in Pontoise) c.1873–1874 Oil on canvas, 40.7 x 50.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Cézanne painted this landscape when he was working alongside Camille Pissarro in the Oise valley, north…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con palazzo (English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 134 x 108.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Sun pours across a landscape with trees and plants growing around and on an arched stone…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Natività mistica (Mystic Nativity) 1500 Oil on canvas, 108.6 x 74.9 cm National Gallery, London The infant Christ reaches up towards the Virgin Mary, oblivious of his visitors – the Three Kings on the left and the shepherds on…