Tag: walking

Rue de village, Chailly (1865)

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.…

Fifth Avenue at Washington Square, New York (1891)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Fifth Avenue at Washington Square, New York 1891 Oil on canvas, 56 x 40.6 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Carmen Thyssen Collection Following his return from Paris in 1889, Hassam lived at 95 Fifth Avenue, a few steps from…

La Promenade (1875-1876)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Promenade (The Walk) 1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 170.2 x 108.3 cm The Frick Collection, New York A young woman shepherds a pair of identically dressed little sisters along the path of a well-maintained public park. All three…

Le Pont Neuf (1871)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont Neuf (The Pont Neuf) 1871 Oil on canvas, 53.34 × 73.03 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Claude Monet returned to Paris in the fall of 1871 after more than a year of exile in…

Ciego popular en Cádiz

Pueyrredón, Prilidiano (1823-1870) Ciego popular en Cádiz (Popular blind man in Cadiz) s.d. Watercolor on paper, 26.5 x 17.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Costumbrista scene whose main interest lies in the fact that it is a…

La fortezza di Königstein (1756-1758)

Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) La fortezza di Königstein (The Fortress of Königstein) 1756–1758 Oil on canvas, 133 x 235.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In the distance, a fortress sits on a rocky plateau below a sky filled with lightly…

Le Pont Neuf à Paris (1872)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Le Pont Neuf à Paris 1872 Oil on canvas, 75.3 x 93.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington While his figure paintings are better known, Renoir‘s landscapes resonate with a vigor and freshness of vision central to…