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The Palace of Westminster (1906-1907)

Derain, André (1880-1954) The Palace of Westminster 1906–1907 Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 99.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1905 and 1906, Derain traveled to London at the suggestion of the art dealer Ambroise Vollard to paint the…

La conversione della Maddalena (c.1661-1662)

Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La conversione della Maddalena (The Conversion of Mary Magdalene) c.1661–1662 Oil on canvas, 229.2 x 265.4 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena In the seventeenth century, Guido Cagnacci was celebrated for his deeply sensual paintings of female saints and…

Les vacanciers sur la plage à Trouville (1864)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Les vacanciers sur la plage à Trouville (Vacationers on the Beach at Trouville) 1864 Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 104.14 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis This is one of Eugène Boudin‘s many paintings of the Normandy…

Marée basse, Berck (1886)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Marée basse, Berck (Low Tide, Berck) 1886 Oil on canvas, 50.2 x 61.3 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Known as a pleinairiste, Boudin was among the first artists to paint entire compositions, rather than just sketches, outdoors (en…

La Plage à Trouville (1888)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La Plage à Trouville (Beach at Trouville) 1888 Oil on panel, 14.3 x 23.8 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Boudin’s beach scenes provide a charming record of resort fashion through the decades. Here the wide crinolines of the…

La Plage à Trouville (1880)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La Plage à Trouville (Beach at Trouville) 1880 Oil on panel, 14.9 x 25.1 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Boudin’s beach scenes provide a charming record of resort fashion through the decades. Here the wide crinolines of the…

La Plage à Trouville (1873)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) La Plage à Trouville (Beach at Trouville) 1873 Oil on panel, 21 x 41.3 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena Boudin was the great painter of Normandy’s beach resorts: the casinos and grand hotels of Trouville and Deauville that…

Vue de Bordeaux (1874)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Vue de Bordeaux (View of Bordeaux, from the Quai des Chartrons) 1874 Oil on fabric, 54.7 x 89.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In 1873, Boudin made his first visit to the important port city of…

Bateaux ancrés

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Bateaux ancrés (Boats at Anchor) s.d. Etching Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Scène de plage (1865-1867)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Scène de plage (Beach Scene) c.1865–1867 Oil on panel, 34.7 x 57.7 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland On a beach where a strong breeze moves off the water from left to right, figures of French women,…