Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Pont de Charing Cross, temps couvert (Charing Cross Bridge, Overcast Day) 1900 Oil on canvas, 60.6 x 91.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Coal dust combined with naturally damp weather in the 19th century to create near…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Cros de Cagnes, mer, montagnes (Cros de Cagnes, Sea, Mountains) c.1910 Oil on canvas, 20 × 30.9 cm Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol See also: • Cagnes-sur-Mer (France)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Brouillard à Guernesey (Fog on Guernsey) 1883 Oil on canvas, 53.3 x 65.1 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati See also: • Guernsey (UK)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Sur le Grand Canal, Venise (Grand Canal, Venice) 1881 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston When Renoir’s Venetian pictures were first exhibited, one critic called them, “the most outrageous series of ferocious…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Baigneuse au griffon, Lise au bord de la Seine (Bather with a Griffon Dog, Lise on the Bank of the Seine) 1870 Oil on canvas, 183.5 x 115 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Lise Tréhot (1848-1922) posed…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Grands Boulevards (The Grands Boulevards) 1875 Oil on canvas, 52.1 × 63.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Perhaps Renoir‘s most famous view of Paris is this archetypical image of its newest and most fashionable district in…
De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) La tour rouge (The Red Tower) 1913 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 100.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Giorgio de Chirico’s enigmatic works of 1911 to 1917 provided a crucial inspiration for the Surrealist painters. The dreamlike…