Laval, Charles (1861-1894) Paysage de la Martinique (Landscape on Martinique) 1887–1888 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 73.1 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam A woman enters the scene from stage left, as it were. The long, slender trunks of the trees on each…
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le fils prodigue (The Prodigal Son) 1879 Oil on canvas, 59.4 x 71.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Compare: Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre (1824-1898) Le fils prodigue c.1879 National Gallery of Art, Washington Puvis de Chavannes,…
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Artists Sketching in the White Mountains 1868 Oil on panel, 24.1 × 40.3 cm Portland Museum of Art, Portland
Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Dad’s Coming! 1873 Oil on wood, 22.9 x 34.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman holding a baby stands near a young boy who perches in the tipped-up end of a rowboat that has been pulled…
Millet, Jean-François (1814-1875) Le coup de vent (The gust of wind) 1871–1873 Oil on canvas, 90.5 x 117.5 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Venere adornata dalle Grazie (Venus Adorned by the Graces) c.1590–1595 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 133 x 170.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In the left half of this horizontal painting, a bare-chested, seated woman, Venus, is…
O’Keeffe, Georgia (1887-1986) The Lawrence Tree (D.H. Lawrence Pine Tree) 1929 Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 101.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Curatorial Narrative: O’Keeffe found endless beauty and inspiration in nature, from coastlines in the Northeast to the desert in the Southwest.…
De Morgan, Evelyn (1855-1919) The Dryad 1884–1885 Oil on panel, 128.6 x 67.4 cm De Morgan Collection In Greek mythology dryads are mythological tree nymphs and protectors of the oak tree. Evelyn appears to have depicted a hamadryade, which is a…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Sous-bois avec deux personnages (Undergrowth with Two Figures) 1890 Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 99.7 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Betrayal of Christ c.1618–1620 Oil on canvas, 141.92 x 113.3 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Looser and less formal than the portraits that made him famous, this work was completed shortly before Van Dyck began…