Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil 1872 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 59.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Boulevard Héloise, Argenteuil 1872 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven See also: • Boulevard Héloïse (Argenteuil)
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Le Violiniste (The Fiddler) 1912–1913 Oil on linen tablecloth, 196.5 x 166.5 x 6.5 cm Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Marc Chagall completed The Violinist shortly after moving from St. Petersburg to Paris. It is a good example of the…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Consegna delle chiavi del Regno (Christ’s Charge to Peter) c.1515–1516 Bodycolour over charcoal underdrawing on paper, mounted on canvas, 344 x 534 Victoria and Albert Museum, London Acquired by the Prince of Wales, future King Charles I in 1623…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Golconde (Golconda) 1953 Oil on canvas, 80 × 100.3 cm Menil Collection, Houston See also: • Golconda (India)
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Les toits de Collioure (View of Collioure) c.1905 Oil on canvas, 59.5 x 73 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg © Succession H. Matisse Collioure was a small southern French town on the shore of the Mediterranean where Matisse worked…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Die Drahtziehmühle (The Wire-drawing Mill) c.1489 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 29 x 42.6 cm Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin The depiction of the landscape environment, which is self-evident and particularly interesting to us, was not common for centuries, from the…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Wapping 1860–1864 Oil on canvas, 72 x 101.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down at a woman with pale skin and two men with ruddy complexions sitting at a table near a…
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Le tre età dell’uomo (The Three Ages of Man) 1512–1514 Oil on canvas, 90 x 150.7 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh This early work depicts the three stages of life: infancy, adulthood and old age. Cupid clambers over the sleeping…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Vue depuis les jardins Farnèse (View from the Farnese Gardens, Rome) 1826 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 24.4475 x 40.005 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington After working several years in France, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot embarked for Italy in…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La Gare de Lordship Lane, Dulwich (Lordship Lane Station) 1871 Oil on canvas, 44.5 x 72.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Pissarro spent over a year in London, fleeing the Franco-Prussian war. He painted sights around his…