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Une laveuse au Quai d’Anjou (c.1860)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Une laveuse au Quai d’Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d’Anjou) c.1860 Oil on wood, 28.57 x 19.68 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Through light and shadow, Honoré Daumier empathetically responded to the effects of increasing industrialization in…

Scuola di San Marco (c.1782)

Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Scuola di San Marco (with Loggia Erected for Benediction of Pope Pius VI May 19, 1782, Campo San Zanipolo) c.1782 Oil on canvas, 38.7 x 32.4 cm Rhode Island School of Design, Providence See also: • Venezia (Italia)

Le Départ du vapeur de Folkestone (1868-1872)

Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Départ du vapeur de Folkestone (The Folkestone Boat, Boulogne) c.1868–1872 Oil on canvas, 60 x 73.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia See also: • Boulogne-sur-Mer (France) | Folkestone (England)

La chiusa di Dolo (c.1745)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721-1780) La chiusa di Dolo (The Lock at Dolo) c.1745 Oil on canvas, 73.8 × 108.7 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven See also: • Dolo (Italia)

La présentation de Jésus au Temple (1886-1894)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) La présentation de Jésus au Temple (The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple) 1886–1894 Watercolor on paper, 22.2 x 15.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York Forty days after the birth of Jesus, the Holy Family travels to Jerusalem…

Les deux confrères, Avocats (1865-1870)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les deux confrères, Avocats (The Two Colleagues, Lawyers) 1865–1870 Watercolor on paper, 25.4 × 19.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York The approximately four thousand lithographic caricatures that Honoré Daumier produced were widely circulated in nineteenth-century Paris, where they…

Scipione l’Africano libera Massiva (1719-1721)

Tiepolo, Giambattista (1696-1770) Scipione l’Africano libera Massiva (Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva) 1719–1721 Oil on canvas, 279.4 x 487.6 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius (236-183 BC)

L’escalier, deuxième état (1914)

Léger, Fernand (1881-1955) L’escalier, deuxième état (The Staircase, Second State) 1914 Oil on canvas, 88 x 124.5 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid On 5 May 1913 Fernand Léger, one of the participants in “Salle 41” at the Salon des Indépendants of 1911,…

La Blanchisseuse (1863)

Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) La Blanchisseuse (The Laundress) 1863? Oil on oak, 48.9 x 33 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting depicts a subject visible from Daumier’s studio on the quai d’Anjou in Paris: laundresses returning from laundry boats…