Lippi, Filippino (1457-1504) Madonna col Bambino e i santi Girolamo e Domenico (The Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Dominic) c.1485 Oil and tempera on poplar, 203.2 x 186.1 cm National Gallery, London Predella: The Rucellai coat of arms. Saint Francis…
Masaccio (1401-1428) Cacciata di Adamo ed Eva dal paradiso terrestre (Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Earthly Paradise) c.1424–1428 (altered in 1680, and restored in 1980) Fresco, 214 x 90 cm Cappella Brancacci, Firenze In 1680 Cosimo III de’ Medici,…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Une laveuse au Quai d’Anjou (Laundress on the Quai d’Anjou) c.1860 Oil on wood, 28.57 x 19.68 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Through light and shadow, Honoré Daumier empathetically responded to the effects of increasing industrialization in…
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Quai du Pothuis à Pontoise (The Quai du Pothuis in Pontoise) 1872 Oil on canvas, 45.09 × 55.25 cm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Views of Pontoise, a northwestern suburb of Paris, were among Pissarro’s most…
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Lot and His Daughters (reverse) c.1496–1499 Oil on panel, 52.4 x 42.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This scene is painted on the reverse side of Dürer‘s Madonna and Child. The story of Lot and his daughters…
Daumier, Honoré (1808-1879) Les deux confrères, Avocats (The Two Colleagues, Lawyers) 1865–1870 Watercolor on paper, 25.4 × 19.8 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York The approximately four thousand lithographic caricatures that Honoré Daumier produced were widely circulated in nineteenth-century Paris, where they…
Matisse, Henri (1869-1954) Notre-Dame, une fin d’après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon) 1902 Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 72.39 x 54.61 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon…
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Jane Avril quittant le Moulin Rouge (Jane Avril leaving the Moulin Rouge) 1893 Essence on board, 85.7 x 69.9 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was fascinated with a rapidly changing Paris as well as those…
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Jardin de Daubigny (Daubigny’s Garden) 1890 Oil on canvas, 56 x 101.5 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel Compare: Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Jardin de Daubigny 1890 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le Jardin…
Bazille, Frédéric (1841-1870) Rue de village, Chailly (Village Street, Chailly) 1865 Oil on canvas 32.5 х 24.5 cm Musée Fabre, Montpellier This 1865 painting created in the Chailly forest is one of the first testimonies to Frédéric Bazille‘s interest in landscape.…