Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Landscape at Saint-Rémy (Enclosed Field with Peasant) 1889 Oil on canvas, 30 x 37-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Van Gogh‘s spirituality and intense identification with the forces of nature transformed his views of the landscape into…
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Villeneuve-les-Avignon 1836 Oil on canvas, 10-1/4 x 16-1/4 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Corot spent the summer of 1836 in southern France, where he and his fellow painters rose early each day to sketch directly from nature.…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Maison en Provence (House in Provence) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 25-1/2 x 32 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Cézanne loved the landscape of his home in southern France and devoted much of his career to painting it.…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le printemps à Essoyes (Springtime in Essoyes) c.1900 Oil on canvas, 19-3/4 x 24-1/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis See also: • Essoyes (France)
Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Pont-Aven vu du Bois d’Amour (Pont-Aven Seen from the Bois d’Amour) 1892 Oil on canvas, 28-3/8 x 36-1/4 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis While the Pont-Aven artists often depicted the Breton people or countryside, images of the village…
Constable, John (1776-1837) The Cornfield c.1816 Oil on canvas, 12-7/16 x 9-3/4 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis This small oil sketch was made by Constable as a preparatory study for a painting he referred to as “The Drinking Boy.” The loosely painted…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Bords de l’Oise près de Pontoise (The Banks of the Oise near Pontoise) 1873 Oil on canvas, 38.1 cm × 55.2 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Pissarro’s landscape was painted at the dawn of the Impressionist era. Its…
Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La danse champêtre (The Country Dance) c.1706–1710 Oil on canvas, 50 x 60.01 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In this, his earliest known painting, Watteau draws inspiration from scenes of fairs, peasant weddings, and country dances by Flemish…
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les joies de la maternité (The Joys of Motherhood) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 57 x 38-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Idealized visions of the pleasures of local country life were popularized in the 1740s by Charles-Simon Favart…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem c.1617 Oil on canvas, 151 × 229.2 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In 1618, Peter Paul Rubens referred to the young Anthony van Dyck as “the best of my pupils.” This…