Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 74.6 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) 1876 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 61.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1872 to 1877, Sisley lived along the Seine just west of Paris, an area whose…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 46.2 x 65.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris See also: • Bougival (France)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne (The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne) 1872 Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Recently built, state-of-the-art bridges, emblematic of modernity, appear in a number of Sisley’s paintings of the 1870s…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Deux Soeurs, Sur la terrasse (Two Sisters, On the Terrace) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 × 80.9 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago “He loves everything that is joyous, brilliant, and consoling in life,” an anonymous interviewer once…
Bougival in Art: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Glaçons à Bougival 3rd quarter of the 19th Century Musée du Louvre, Paris Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Eugène Manet et sa fille à Bougival 1881 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Femme et enfant dans le…
Deaths: • Beauharnais, Joséphine de (1763-1814) See also: • Castles | France | Palaces | Rueil-Malmaison
Rueil-Malmaison in Art: Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) La Maison à Rueil 1882 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Maison à Rueil 1882 Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin Highlights: • Château de Malmaison Deaths: • Beauharnais, Joséphine de (1763-1814) See also: • Cities | France
Lavacourt in Art: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Seine à Lavacourt 1880 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Soleil couchant sur la Seine à Lavacourt, effet d’hiver 1880 Petit Palais, Paris Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vue de la…
Chatou in Art: Derain, André (1880-1954) Paysage aux environs de Chatou 1904–1905 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Derain, André (1880-1954) L’église de Chatou 1909 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) La Seine à Chatou c.1871 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto …