Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) La route dans les bois (The Road in the Woods) 1879 Oil on canvas, 46.3 x 55.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
La route dans les bois (1879)
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L’annunciazione (1502-1504)
Raffaello (1483-1520) L’annunciazione (The Annunciation) 1502–1504 Tempera grassa on wood transferred to canvas, 39 x 190 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano This painting is the left part of the predella of the Oddi Altarpiece. The Crowning of the Virgin was painted for the altar…
Processione al Calvario (c.1504-1505)
Raffaello (1483-1520) Processione al Calvario (The Procession to Calvary) c.1504–1505 Oil on poplar, 24.4 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of three scenes from the predella of Raphael’s Colonna Altarpiece, painted for the convent of S. Antonio da Padua…
The Scream (1910)
Munch, Edvard (1863-1944) The Scream (Der Schrei) probably 1910 Tempera and oil on cardboard, 83.5 × 66 cm Munch Museum, Oslo 5 things you should know about The Scream Written by: Ute Kuhleman Falck, curator at MUNCH It is one of the…
Étude pour “Le Pont de l’Europe” (1876)
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Étude pour “Le Pont de l’Europe” (Study for “Le Pont de l’Europe”) 1876 Oil on canvas, 83.18 x 122.56 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo During his time, Gustave Caillebotte was best known as an enthusiastic collector and…
La fille du guerrier (c.1878)
Tissot, James (1836-1902) La fille du guerrier (The Warrior’s Daughter) c.1878 Oil on panel, 21.8 x 36.2 cm Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Modern life was the central theme of Tissot‘s art, with a focus on bourgeois social behaviour. His genre pieces…
Femme se promenant dans un forêt exotique (c.1910)
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Femme se promenant dans un forêt exotique (Woman Walking in an Exotic Forest) c.1910 Oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Henri Rousseau became the unlikely hero of the Parisian avant-garde for his “naïve” style and…
View of Delft (c.1660-1661)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) View of Delft (Gezicht op Delft) c.1660–1661 Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 115.7 cm Mauritshuis, The Hague View of Delft today: This is the most famous cityscape of the Dutch seventeenth century. The interplay of light and shade,…
La promenade (1870)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La promenade (The Walk) 1870 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Getty Center, Los Angeles What Pierre-Auguste Renoir himself titled this painting is unknown, but La Promenade is in part an homage to earlier artists whom he greatly…
The Return of the Herd (1565)
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter (c.1525-1569) The Return of the Herd (Autumn, October-November) 1565 Oil on oak, 117 × 159.7 × 3 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Bruegel introduced to the art of painting the autumn motif of the returning herd, a subject…