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Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil (1872)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Boulevard Héloïse, Argenteuil 1872 Oil on canvas, 39.5 x 59.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Boulevard Héloise, Argenteuil 1872 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven     See also: • Boulevard Héloïse (Argenteuil)

La Seine à Bougival (1876)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) 1876 Oil on canvas, 46.4 x 61.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York From 1872 to 1877, Sisley lived along the Seine just west of Paris, an area whose…

Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne (1872)

Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Pont de Villeneuve-la-Garenne (The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne) 1872 Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Recently built, state-of-the-art bridges, emblematic of modernity, appear in a number of Sisley’s paintings of the 1870s…

Naiade (1815-1823)

Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Naiade (Naiad) model 1815–1817, carved 1820–1823 Marble, 80 x 190 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Compare: Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Naiade 1819–1824 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York    

Naiade (1819-1824)

Canova, Antonio & studio (1757-1822) Naiade (Reclining Naiad) 1819–1824 Carrara marble, 88.9 × 190.5 × 82.6 cm, 1160.3 kg Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is a variant of the Reclining Venus with Cupid, now in Buckingham Palace, which was…

Perseo con la testa della Medusa (1804-1806)

Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Perseo con la testa della Medusa (Perseus with the Head of Medusa) 1804–1806 Marble, 242.6 x 191.8 x 102.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York When Countess Valeria Tarnowska first met the sculptor Antonio Canova, on December…

Terpsichore Lyran (1816)

Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Terpsichore Lyran (Muse of Lyric Poetry) 1816 Marble, 177.5 x 78.1 x 61 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Trained by his grandfather, an Italian stonemason, Canova began modeling clay and carving marble sculptures before age ten. In…

Crucifixion blanche (1938)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Crucifixion blanche (White Crucifixion) 1938 Oil on canvas, 154.6 x 140 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris White Crucifixion is the first in Marc Chagall’s series of…

Moi et le village (1911)

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985) Moi et le village (I and the Village) 1911 Oil on canvas, 192.1 x 151.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York Chagall grew up in a Hasidic Jewish community in what is today Belarus. I and the…