Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Scène d’été / Les Baigneurs (Summer Scene / Bathers) 1869 Oil on canvas, 160 x 160.7 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge When this painting was first exhibited at the Salon of 1870, critic and artist Zacharie Astruc wrote of Bazille,…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) 1872 Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris A stay at the Hôtel Amirauté in Le Havre around November 1872 provided Monet with the subject of his most famous painting,…