Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con palazzo (English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 134 x 108.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Sun pours across a landscape with trees and plants growing around and on an arched stone…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Frère et soeur bretons (Breton Brother and Sister) 1871 Oil on canvas, 129.2 x 89.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Based on sketches Bouguereau made while summering in Brittany in the late 1860s, this picture was…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Wheat Field with Cypresses (F 717, JH 1756) 1889 Oil on canvas 73.2 x 93.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Cypresses gained ground in Van Gogh’s work by late June 1889 when he resolved…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vue de Bougival (View of Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 57.15 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee View of Bougival epitomizes the characteristics that would come to define Pierre Auguste Renoir’s special contributions to the Impressionist…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz”, Winterthur During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 59 x 80 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far from Paris. Monet noted on September 25, “I…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 66.5 x 81 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm In the short story, Paul’s mistress, the French author Guy de Maupassant describes the floating café La Grenouillère in a Paris suburb: “In the environs…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Grenouillère (Bathers at La Grenouillère) 1869 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm National Gallery, London During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 74.6 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Paysage près de Paris (Landscape near Paris) c.1876 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 60 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Across a grassy field, a row of buildings and two trees line the horizon, which comes about halfway…