Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Chenal de Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe (The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 × 92.7 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis For this tranquil harbor scene in northern France, Seurat, leader of the…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Le Garde (The Guard) 1889 Oil on canvas, 21-7/8 x 18-3/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Gérôme was schooled in the rigorous exactitude of the French academic tradition as well as Romanticism’s taste for the exotic. He is…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’église San Giorgio Maggiore, Venise (The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice) 1908 Oil on canvas, 64.7 cm × 92 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In his series of paintings devoted to the church of San Giorgio Maggiore,…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La danse champêtre (The Country Dance) c.1706–1710 Oil on canvas, 50 x 60.01 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In this, his earliest known painting, Watteau draws inspiration from scenes of fairs, peasant weddings, and country dances by Flemish…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les joies de la maternité (The Joys of Motherhood) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 57 x 38-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Idealized visions of the pleasures of local country life were popularized in the 1740s by Charles-Simon Favart…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem c.1617 Oil on canvas, 151 × 229.2 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In 1618, Peter Paul Rubens referred to the young Anthony van Dyck as “the best of my pupils.” This…
Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Port-en-Bessin 1888 Oil on canvas, 66 x 83.2 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis In the summer of 1888, Georges Seurat worked in Port-en-Bessin, a small fishing village in Normandy. He painted six views of the seaport and its…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre Français, Paris: Pluie (Place du Théâtre Français, Paris: Rain) 1898 Oil on canvas, 73.66 x 91.44 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis After a chronic eye infection limited the amount of time Camille Pissarro could spend…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Meule, soleil dans la brume (Grainstack, Sun in the Mist) 1891 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100.3 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis In the late 1880s, Claude Monet analyzed visual perception by representing the same subject under varying…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont japonais (The Japanese Bridge) c.1923–1925 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.21 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis In 1883, Claude Monet moved to Giverny, about forty miles northwest of Paris. For the rest of his life, he…