Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Terrasse de café sur la place du Forum (Café Terrace on the Place du Forum) 1888 Oil on canvas 80.7 x 65.3 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F 467, JH 1580) Nocturnal painting Van Gogh had intended to make…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Naissance de Vénus (Birth of Venus) 1879 Oil on canvas, 300 x 215 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le jour des morts (All Saints’ Day) 1859 Oil on canvas, 147 x 120 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux William Bouguereau presented at the Salon of 1859 Wounded Love, The Portrait of Madame Duret, painted in 1857, as well…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Sacrificio di Isacco (Sacrifice of Isaac) c.1603 Oil on canvas, 104 x 135 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The painting illustrates the Old Testament passage in which God subjected Abraham to an extraordinary test of obedience by ordering him to…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Dido building Carthage 1815 Oil on canvas, 155.5 x 230 cm National Gallery, London Turner’s painting is based on the English seventeenth-century author and poet John Dryden’s translation of the Aeneid, the monumental Latin poem written by…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway 1844 Oil on canvas, 91 x 121.8 cm National Gallery, London A steam engine rushes towards us as it speeds along a bridge through the rain. The bridge…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Les lauriers roses (The Terrace at Méric) 1867 Oil on canvas, 55.2 x 91.4 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati See also: • Castelnau-le-Lez (France) | Des Hours, Thérèse
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Les remparts d’Aigues-Mortes (The Ramparts at Aigues-Mortes) 1867 Oil on canvas, 46 x 75.50 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier Although he never painted the coastline, Bazille was fascinated by the play of light and water, to which he devoted most…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Paysage à Chailly (Landscape at Chailly) 1865 Oil on canvas, 81 x 100.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Chailly-en-Bière (France)
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Pêcheur au filet (Fisherman with a net) 1868 Oil on canvas, 134 x 83 cm Private collection