Tag: sky

Pont de Charing Cross, temps couvert (1900)

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…

Cros de Cagnes, mer, montagnes (c.1910)

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)

Giverny (1889)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Giverny 1889 Oil on canvas, 65 x 81.5 cm Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv See also: • Giverny (France)

Brouillard à Guernesey (1883)

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)

Sur le Grand Canal, Venise (1881)

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…

La Baigneuse au griffon (1870)

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…

Les Grands Boulevards (1875)

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…

La tour rouge (1913)

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…