Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (1796-1875) Le chêne de la vallée (The Oak in the Valley) 1871 Oil on canvas, 39.8 × 52.8 cm National Gallery, London This view was one of several pictures that Corot painted in May 1871 while he was staying…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Vallée du Puits Noir (The Valley of Les Puits-Noir) 1868 Oil on canvas, 111.1 × 137.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Gachet, Paul (1828-1909) Moulin du Nord dans la vallée de la Creuse (North Windmill in the Creuse Valley) 1874 Etching with drypoint on tan wove paper, 15.5 × 10.6 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) Mountainous Landscape with Herdsmen Resting by a Path c.1595 Oil on copper, 18.6 x 25.2 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Travelers of different backgrounds populate the windy roads of this dramatic mountain view. With atmospheric lighting and…
Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) La Vallée d’Ornans (The Valley of Ornans) 1858 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 85.4 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis See also: • Ornans (France)
Lotto, Lorenzo (1480-1557) Allegoria della Virtù e del Vizio (Allegory of Virtue and Vice) 1505 Oil on panel, 56.5 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Set on a strip of land under a cloud-filled sky and in front of…
Piero della Francesca (c.1416-1492) Battesimo di Cristo (The Baptism of Christ) probably about 1437–1445 Egg tempera on poplar, 167 × 116 cm National Gallery, London This is the earliest surviving work by the innovative Tuscan painter, Piero della Francesca. Very few…
Perugino (c.1446-1523) Madonna col Bambino e un angelo (The Virgin and Child with an Angel) c.1496–1500 Oil and egg temera on poplar, 114 x 63.5 cm National Gallery, London This was the central panel of the predella of an altarpiece made for…
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La Terrasse à Saint-Germain, Printemps (The Terrace at Saint-Germain, Spring) 1875 Oil on canvas, 73.6 x 99.6 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France)
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Jalais Hill, Pontoise 1867 Oil on canvas, 87 x 114.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This view of Pontoise, just northwest of Paris, helped establish Pissarro’s reputation as an innovative painter of the rural French landscape. The…