Magritte, René (1898-1967) La légende des siècles (The Legend of the Centuries) 1952 Gouache on card, 17.8 × 14.9 cm Menil Collection, Houston
La légende des siècles (1952)
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Figures sur une plage (c.1863)
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Figures sur une plage (Figures on a Beach) c.1863 Oil on panel, 21.9 x 45.4 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Sur la plage de Boulogne (1868)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Sur la plage de Boulogne (On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer) 1868 Oil on canvas, 32.39 × 66.04 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond As early as 1863, Manet’s submissions to the Salon were either rejected by the jury…
En route pour la pêche (1878)
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,…
Le Rocher isolé (c.1862)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Le Rocher isolé (The Isolated Rock) c.1862 Oil on canvas, 64.8 x 81.3 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Gustave Courbet’s paintings of the shorelines in Normandy portray the land as subject to continuous, if gradual, change. Here, he…
Les Falaises à Étretat (1885)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Les Falaises à Étretat (The Cliffs at Étretat) 1885 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81.3 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown See also: • Étretat (France)
Trilogía del desierto: espejismo (1946)
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Trilogía del desierto: espejismo (Trilogy of the desert: Mirage) 1946 Oil on canvas, 36.1 × 59.3 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
La plage de Trouville à l’heure du bain (1864)
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La plage de Trouville à l’heure du bain (The beach of Trouville at bath time) 1864 Oil on canvas, 67.5 x 104 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto See also: • Trouville-sur-Mer (France)
La Femme aux bas blancs (1864)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Femme aux bas blancs (Woman with White Stockings) 1864 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Traditionally, European painters made the nude subject decorous by presenting it as part of an edifying mythological narrative.…
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…