Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Battaglia di San Romano (The Battle of San Romano) c.1438–1440 Egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar, 182 × 320 cm National Gallery, London It’s hard to follow what’s going on in this large and busy…
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) L’âge d’or (The Golden Age) 1862 Oil on paper mounted on panel, 46.4 x 61.9 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) L’été (Summer) 1891 Oil on fabric, 149.6 x 232.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Puvis de Chavannes was considered one of the foremost artists in France in the second half of the 1800, and was…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vétheuil en été (Vétheuil in Summer) 1879 Oil on canvas, 67.7 x 90.5 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vétheuil 1879 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne See also: • Vétheuil (France)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Meules de blé, fin de l’été (Stacks of Wheat, End of Summer) 1890–1891 Oil on canvas, 60 × 100.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago The monumental stacks that Claude Monet depicted in his series Stacks of Wheat…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) L’Amazone (The Horsewoman) c.1882 Oil on canvas, 73 x 52 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid First Manet then the Impressionists followed the road paved by Courbet in representing reality in painting and went even further by initiating new research…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Monet sur son bateau (Monet in his Boat) 1874 Oil on canvas, 82.7 x 105 cm Neue Pinakothek, Munich Manet painted this picture in the bright light of a sunny summer’s day and depicted Monet doing the same…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) En été, la Bohémienne (In Summer, the Bohemian) 1868 Oil on canvas, 85 x 59 cm Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin See also: • Tréhot, Lise (1848-1922)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La rêveuse, Soirée d’été (The Dreamer, Summer Evening) c.1876 Oil on wood, 34.9 x 60.3 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Estate (Summer) c.1546–1548 Oil on canvas, 105.7 x 193 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Summer is represented here as Ceres, goddess of agriculture, reclining in front of her attribute, a row of wheat stalks. The work…