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La plage de Sainte-Adresse (1867)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La plage de Sainte-Adresse (The Beach at Sainte-Adresse) 1867 Oil on canvas, 75.8 × 102.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the summer of 1867 Claude Monet stayed with his aunt in Sainte-Adresse, an affluent suburb of…

La Cabane à Trouville, marée basse (1881)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Cabane à Trouville, marée basse (The Hut in Trouville, Low Tide) 1881 Oil on canvas, 80 x 73.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©CCarmen Thyssen Collection This painting is not unusual in Monet‘s oeuvre: the high line of…

Canal Grande da San Vio, Venezia (1723-1724)

Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande da San Vio, Venezia (The Grand Canal from San Vio, Venice) 1723–1724 Oil on canvas, 140.5 x 204.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Canaletto is undoubtedly the most outstanding of the 18th-century Venetian view painters. View paintings or…

Venise, le Grand Canal (1895)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Venise, le Grand Canal (Venice, The Grand Canal) 1895 Oil on panel, 26 x 35.2 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection “I regret I no longer have the years of youth needed to create a beautiful series…

La partie de croquet (1871)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La partie de croquet (The Croquet Party) 1871 Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 73 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Compare: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Partie de Croquet 1873 Städel Museum, Frankfurt    

Le Bateau goudronné (1873)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Bateau goudronné (Tarring the Boat) 1873 Oil on canvas, 50 x 61.2 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Édouard Manet painted this scene in 1873 while on a visit to Berck-sur-Mer, France, a fishing village on the Channel coast,…

Vue de mer, temps calme (1864)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Vue de mer, temps calme (Sea View, Calm Weather) 1864 Oil on canvas, 73.6 × 92.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This is one of Édouard Manet’s earliest paintings of the sea, a subject to which he…