Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Bateau au bord de la rivière (Boat by the Riverbank) c.1883 Oil on panel, 15 x 24 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This small study is one of some fourteen preparatory oil sketches for Georges Seurat’s first major…
Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Deauville 1893 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 74.2 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London A native of Normandy, Eugène Boudin made his name depicting fashionable Parisian visitors at its seaside resorts. Later in his career, he turned to painting…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Neige à Louveciennes (Snow at Louveciennes) c.1874 Oil on canvas, 46.3 x 55.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Louveciennes lies about sixteen kilometres west of Paris. Sisley painted many views of and around this village in the…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vase de fleurs (Vase of Flowers) 1881 Oil on canvas, 100.4 x 81.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In the early 1880s, Claude Monet focused on painting ambitious floral still lifes. This lavish bouquet of mallows (a wild…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Antibes 1888 Oil on canvas, 65.5 x 92.4 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London In early 1888, Claude Monet travelled to the south of France where he spent several months capturing the intense colours and atmosphere of the Mediterranean.…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (after Raphael) 1630 Oil on panel, 90.2 x 67.5 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This is a copy by Peter Paul Rubens of a renowned portrait of the Italian author and diplomat Baldassare…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Rue à Sannois (Street in Sannois) c.1912 Oil on canvas, 54 x 81 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Maurice Utrillo is known for his depictions of Paris and its outskirts, in which figures are often incidental or completely…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Femme à la fenêtre (Woman at a Window) 1871 Oil on paper, 78 x 63 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This scene of a woman profiled against a bright window seems serene. However, the English artist Walter Sickert,…
Angelico, Fra (c.1395-1455) Imago Pietatis (Christ as Man of Sorrows flanked by Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint John the Evangelist) 1420–1429 Tempera on panel, 21 x 50 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This panel is part of a set of three…
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Young Girl with Cherry Blossom c.1867–1872 Oil on canvas, 139.3 x 73.3 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This canvas is the central section of a larger decorative work commissioned by the Liverpool shipping magnate Frederick Leyland.…