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Aqueduc (c.1826-1828)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Aqueduc (Aqueduct) c.1826–1828 Oil on canvas, 24.1 x 43.8 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Compare: Corot, Camille (1796-1875) Aqueduc dans la campagne romaine 1826 Private collection     See also: • Roma (Italia)

Aqueduc dans la campagne romaine (1826)

Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Aqueduc dans la campagne romaine (A view of the Roman campagna and the Claudian aqueduct towards Monte Cavo) 1826 Oil on canvas, 29.2 x 51.4 cm Private collection Compare: Corot, Camille (1796-1875) Aqueduc c.1826–1828 Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia  …

Paysage à Ornans (c.1868)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Paysage à Ornans (Landscape at Ornans) c.1868 Oil on canvas, 47.3 x 56.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia See also: • Ornans (France)

Parahi Te Marae (1892)

Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Parahi Te Marae (The Sacred Mountain) 1892 Oil on canvas, 66 × 88.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia This painting of a marae, or Tahitian sacred enclosure, was created on Paul Gauguin’s first trip to Tahiti. The artist’s title—Parahi…

Mermaid (1896)

Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) Mermaid 1896 Oil on canvas, 100.3 × 552.5 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Edvard Munch painted Mermaid during an extended stay in Paris in 1896–97, upon receiving a commission for a large-scale decorative work from Axel Heiberg, a…

Il poeta e la sua musa (c.1925)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Il poeta e la sua musa (The Poet and His Muse) c.1925 Oil and tempera on canvas, 91.1 x 73.7 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Though many of his paintings predate the start of Surrealism, Giorgio de…

La Crucifixion (1940)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) La Crucifixion (The Crucifixion) 1940 Oil on canvas, 34 x 29.4 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia During the late 1930s Marc Chagall became increasingly aware of the plight of his fellow Jews in Europe and embarked on a…

Sunflowers (1889)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Sunflowers (F 455, JH 1668) 1889 Oil on canvas, 92.4 × 71.1 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Vincent van Gogh painted this luminous image of sunflowers from memory, in the depths of winter in 1889. Throughout his…

Yeux bleus (1917)

Modigliani, Amedeo (1884-1920) Yeux bleus (Blue Eyes) 1917 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 42.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Born in Livorno, Italy, on the coast of Tuscany, Modigliani moved to Paris in January 1906, where he quickly fell in with…