Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le printemps à Essoyes (Springtime in Essoyes) c.1900 Oil on canvas, 19-3/4 x 24-1/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis See also: • Essoyes (France)
Le printemps à Essoyes (c.1900)
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Pont-Aven vu du Bois d’Amour (1892)
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Pont-Aven vu du Bois d’Amour (Pont-Aven Seen from the Bois d’Amour) 1892 Oil on canvas, 28-3/8 x 36-1/4 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis While the Pont-Aven artists often depicted the Breton people or countryside, images of the village…
Charing Cross Bridge (c.1900)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Charing Cross Bridge c.1900 Oil on canvas, 66 x 92.7 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Monet was fascinated by the vaporous mists of London. He visited the English capital three times between 1899 and 1901, painting views of…
Le Chenal de Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe (1890)
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…
Le Garde (1889)
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…
L’église San Giorgio Maggiore, Venise (1908)
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,…
La danse champêtre (c.1706-1710)
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…
Les joies de la maternité (c.1754)
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…
The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (c.1617)
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…
Port-en-Bessin (1888)
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…