Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Bank of the Oise at Auvers 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 × 90.8 x 3.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit See also: • Auvers-sur-Oise (France)
Bank of the Oise at Auvers (1890)
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Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur (1908)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur (The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore) 1908 Oil on canvas, 65 x 100.5 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York Claude Monet’s preponderant role in the development of Impressionism tends to overshadow…
Diane sortant du bain (1742)
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Diane sortant du bain (Diana leaving her Bath) 1742 Oil on canvas, 57 x 73 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris
Le Bain de Vénus (1751)
Boucher, François (1703-1770) Le Bain de Vénus (The Bath of Venus) 1751 Oil on canvas, 107 x 84.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In Enlightenment France the dedicated search to define truth engendered a re–evaluation of the natural. The belief that…
Willow Grove: Impression of Light and Shadow (c.1905)
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Willow Grove: Impression of Light and Shadow c.1905 Oil on canvas, 37.47 x 48.26 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Piet Mondrian is famous for his abstract paintings, but this relatively early work reveals his origins as a…
Matinée sur la Seine (1896)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Matinée sur la Seine (Morning on the Seine) 1896 Oil on canvas, 89.2 x 92.4 cm Private collection “When you go out to paint try to forget what objects you have before you, a tree, a house, a…
Quai de Clichy, Temps gris (1887)
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Quai de Clichy, Temps gris (Quai de Clichy, Grey Weather) 1887 Oil on canvas, 46 x 65.5 cm Private collection Painted in the spring of 1887, Quai de Clichy. Temps gris shows Signac at the height of his…
La Yole (1875)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Yole (The Skiff) 1875 Oil on canvas, 71 × 92 cm National Gallery, London We are probably looking at the river Seine near Chatou (some ten miles west of central Paris), although the exact site has not been…
Vue de Bordighera (1884)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Vue de Bordighera (View of Bordighera) 1884 Oil on canvas, 66 x 81.8 cm Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Bordighera 1884 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Bordighera (Italia)
Bordighera (1884)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Bordighera 1884 Oil on canvas, 65 × 80.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Early in 1884 Claude Monet traveled to Bordighera, a town on the Italian Riviera near the border between Italy and France, for a working visit…