Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Le port de La Rochelle (The Harbor of La Rochelle) 1851 Oil on canvas, 50.5 × 71.8 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven See also: • La Rochelle (France)
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Seashore with Fishermen c.1781–1782 Oil on canvas, 101.9 x 127.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Gainsborough‘s landscapes are highly personal statements that evolved from ideas and images he developed in his studio, either directly on canvas or…
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish) 1878 Oil on canvas, 78.7 × 122.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington En route pour la pêche depicts a scene in the quiet fishing village of Cancale,…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Les Tours Vertes, La Rochelle (The Green Towers, La Rochelle) 1913 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm Private collection Compare: Signac, Paul (1863-1935) La Rochelle 1930 National Gallery of Art, Washington See also: • La Rochelle…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Baigneurs, étude pour “Une baignade à Asnières” (Bathers, Study for “Bathers at Asnières”) 1883–1884 Oil on wood National Gallery of Art, Washington A grassy riverbank cuts across the lower left corner of this painting, in front of a river…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Fête des fleurs (Festival of Flowers, Nice) 1923 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 92.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland While living in Nice after World War I, Matisse adopted a more relaxed style saturated with the warm…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Marseille, porte de l’Orient (Marseilles, Gateway to the Orient) c.1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 98.42 x 146.36 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington See also: • Marseille (France)
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Villas à Trouville (Villas at Trouville) 1884 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.3 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gustave Caillebotte painted this view of villas at Trouville, a small town on the Normandy coast, using the distinctive…
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Rabbit Hunt 1560 Etching, 22.1 x 29 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In this etching considered the artist’s only autograph print, Pieter Bruegel the Elder replicated the graphic vocabulary of dots and dashes of…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Trouville, bateaux de pêche échoués dans le chenal (Trouville, fishing boats beached in the channel) c.1848 Oil on paper on canvas, 21 x 23.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)