Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le jardinier (The Gardener) 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 15.9 x 24.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Although Seurat is best known for his scenes of urban life, many of his paintings of 1881–84 depict rural…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vue de la Seine (View of the Seine) 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 15.9 x 24.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the beginning of Seurat’s career he made about seventy oil studies on small wood…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Les Poseuses (The Models) 1886–1888 Oil on canvas, 200 x 249.9 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia In this scene set inside the artist’s studio, Seurat depicts models posing in front of A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884 (1884–86;…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Jeune femme se poudrant (Young Woman Powdering Herself) 1888–1890 Oil on canvas, 95.5 x 79.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In this particular painting, Young Woman Powdering Herself, the modulation of light and shadow on the…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte) 1884–1886 Oil on canvas, 207.5 x 308.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In his best-known and largest…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le chanteur espagnol (The Spanish Singer) c.1861 Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper, 28.58 × 21.59 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The Spanish Singer is among the earliest masterpieces in watercolor produced by Edouard Manet. It…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Paysage à Eragny (Landscape at Eragny) 1890 Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper, 21.59 x 26.035 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas On 14 January 1891, Camille Pissarro wrote to his eldest son, Lucien: “I have mounted…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont Neuf (The Pont Neuf) 1871 Oil on canvas, 53.34 × 73.03 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Claude Monet returned to Paris in the fall of 1871 after more than a year of exile in…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vallebona, près de Bordighera (Valle Buona, Near Bordighera) 1884 Oil on canvas, 64.45 × 91.44 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This landscape depicts the rugged countryside along the Riviera at the French-Italian border. The Valle Buona…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Hiver, Femme au manchon (Winter, Woman with a Muff) 1880 Oil on canvas, 74.93 × 61.6 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Along with its pendant, Summer, Winter depicts a fashionable Parisian woman who personifies a season.…