Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Sunlight on the Coast 1890 Oil on canvas, 76.8 × 123.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Winslow Homer skillfully conveys nature’s power with almost violent stabs and dabs of his brush representing waves crashing against rocks. Sunlight…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Canal en Picardie (Canal in Picardy) c.1865–1871 Oil on canvas, 46.7 x 61.6 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot’s The Canal in Picardy depicts a wistful, idyllic scene of springtime in the northern French…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Les Danseuses (The Dancers) c.1899 Pastel on paper, 62.2 x 64.8 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The incandescent, expressive colors of Edgar Degas’s pastel seem to vibrate off the paper. Applied in layered webs of rhythmic strokes,…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors c.1874 Oil on canvas, 160 × 114.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Outside the National Gallery in London a fashionable tourist couple decides what to see next. The woman points her umbrella imperiously in the…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Crepuscule in Opal, Trouville 1865 Oil on canvas, 34.9 x 46 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo “Art should be independent of all claptrap—should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear,…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Campo Santo, Venice 1842 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 92.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Venice is radiant, if somewhat shabby, in Joseph Mallord William Turner’s view north across the Venetian Lagoon. The city…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Jardinière verte (The Green Jardinière) 1882 Oil on canvas, 92.7 x 67.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Like his landscape Road at Wargemont (also in the Museum’s collection), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Green Jardinière features jewel-like tones and…
Morris, William (1834-1896) La Belle Iseult 1858 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Love Song 1868–1877 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 155.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Burne-Jones associated this painting with a refrain from a French folk ballad: “Alas, I know a love song, / Sad or…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) & Studio La mort de Socrate (The Death of Socrates) after 1787 Oil on canvas, 133 x 196 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton David depicts Socrates about to drink hemlock rather than endure exile after being convicted…