Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Skiffs 1877 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington We look slightly down onto the surface of a river in which three narrow canoes, each paddled by a single person, are being rowed toward…
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) River Landscape 1607 Oil on coppper, 20.7 x 32.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington People gather under trees next to an expansive river dotted with boats in this horizontal landscape painting. The people are tiny…
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) La gara tra Apollo e Marsia (The Contest between Apollo and Marsyas) c.1545 Oil on canvas, 139.7 x 240 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt c.1630 Oil on canvas, 231.5 x 153 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Post, Frans (1612-1680) Brazilian Landscape 1656 Oil on panel, 41.6 x 55.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This imagined landscape depicts enslaved Africans resting and dancing amid baskets of fruit on a hill above a broad plain of coastal swamp, surrounded by…
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) San Francisco Javier (Saint Francis Xavier) c.1670 Oil on canvas, 216.7 x 162.2 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828) Mujeres conversando (Gossiping Women) c.1792–1796 Oil on canvas, 59.1 x 142.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Woody Landscape c.1783–1784 Oil on canvas, 64 x 76.8 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Although most famous for his portraits, Gainsborough was also one of the originators of English landscape painting in the eighteenth century. Inspired by Dutch landscapes from…
Daubigny, Charles-François (1817-1878) Une ferme (A Farm) c.1860–1865 Oil on panel, 21.3 x 34.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) L’automne au village (Autumn in the Village) c.1939–1945 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford