Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Buste de Sarah Bernhardt (Bust of Sarah Bernhardt) 1895 Patinated plaster, height 68.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923)
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Serapio (Saint Serapion) 1628 Oil on canvas, 120.2 x 104 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: Saint Serapion was a monk who gave his life to liberate Christians captured during the thirteenth century in North Africa. The…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Port de Brest avec des frégates (Brest Harbour with Frigates) 1872 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 94.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Bretagne | Brest (France)
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Vue panoramique de Rouen (Panoramic View of Rouen) c.1829–1833 Oil on canvas, 26.4 x 41.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Rouen (France)
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Effet coucher de soleil: le rivage à Trouville (Sunset Effect: The Shore at Trouville) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 101.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In the mid-1860s, Courbet visited the fashionable resort of Trouville on the Normandy…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Alone with the Tide (Coast of Brittany) 1861 Oil on canvas, 87.3 x 115.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted this seascape in Brittany, on the northwest coast of France. He focused on…
Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863) Les Baigneuses (Bathers) 1854 Oil on canvas, 93.3 x 79.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford At the height of his career, Eugène Delacroix was challenged by a patron in 1854 to paint a scene of female bathers in a forest…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Les femmes d’Alger, d’après Delacroix (The Women of Algiers, after Delacroix) 1954 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 72.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Between December 1954 and February 1955, Picasso painted fifteen canvases inspired by Eugène Delacroix‘s famous painting of…