Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Kearsarge à Boulogne (The Kearsarge at Boulogne) 1864 Oil on canvas, 81.6 x 100 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the American Civil War, the United States warship Kearsarge made headlines after sinking the Confederate…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Lot and His Daughters (reverse) c.1496–1499 Oil on panel, 52.4 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This scene is painted on the reverse side of Dürer‘s Madonna and Child. The story of Lot and his daughters…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Marseille, porte de l’Orient (Marseilles, Gateway to the Orient) c.1868–1869 Oil on canvas, 98.42 x 146.36 cm The Phillips Collection, Washington See also: • Marseille (France)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Mauvaises nouvelles, la séparation (Bad News, The parting) 1872 Oil on canvas, 68.6 x 91.4 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Compare: Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le Thé 1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Tissot, James (1836-1902) Une histoire intéressante c.1872…
Tissot, James (1836-1902) Le Thé (Tea) 1872 Oil on wood, 66 x 47.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When Tissot moved to London in 1871, he immersed himself in the local scene, with work for Vanity Fair and genre…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le Havre, Le Port (Le Havre, The Port) 1884 Oil on panel, 32.4 x 41.1 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York For Boudin, the sky—with its constant cloud motion and ever-changing light—proved a powerful source of inspiration throughout his…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le Port du Havre (The port of Le Havre) 1892 Oil on wood panel, 32.1 × 40.7 cm National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne See also: • Le Havre (France)
Canaletto (1697-1768) Il Bacino di San Marco dalla Piazzetta (The Bacino di San Marco, from the Piazzetta) c.1735 Oil on canvas, 48.8 × 81.8 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Compare: Canaletto (1697-1768) Bacino di San Marco dalla Piazzetta c.1750 National…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La conquista del filosofo (The Philosopher’s Conquest) 1913–1914 Oil on canvas, 125.1 × 99.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The work of Giorgio de Chirico represents an unexpected form of classicism in early avant-garde painting. This…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Southampton Water 1872 Oil on canvas, 51 × 76.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago In the early 1870s James McNeill Whistler took a radical step toward abstraction with his Nocturnes series. In…