Tag: water

Vue de la Seine (1882-1883)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Vue de la Seine (View of the Seine) 1882–1883 Oil on wood, 15.9 x 24.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At the beginning of Seurat’s career he made about seventy oil studies on small wood…

Une baignade à Asnières (1884)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Une baignade à Asnières (Bathers at Asnières) 1884 Oil on canvas, 201 × 300 cm National Gallery, London This large picture was Seurat’s first major composition, painted when he had not yet turned 25. He intended it…

Herbeux berge de rivière (1881-1882)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Herbeux berge de rivière (Grassy Riverbank) 1881–1882 Oil on canvas, 32.7 × 40.64 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas In 1881 and 1882, Georges Seurat spent hours along the shores of the River Seine, northwest of Paris.…

Vista de Toledo (1599-1600)

El Greco (1541-1614) Vista de Toledo (View of Toledo) c.1599–1600 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 108.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this, his greatest surviving landscape, El Greco portrays the city he lived and worked in for…

River Bank in Springtime (1887)

Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) River Bank in Springtime (F 352, JH 1321) 1887 Oil on canvas, 48.9 × 58.1 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The light, fresh tones and free brush strokes in this painting of the banks of…

Nymphéas (1908)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Nymphéas (Water Lilies) 1908 Oil on canvas, 99.69 x 99.69 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Twentieth-century art is inconceivable without Claude Monet‘s paintings of water lilies. They are, in many ways, as important in the history…

Le quai à Anvers (1874)

Boudin, Eugène (1824-1898) Le quai à Anvers (The Quay at Antwerp) 1874 Oil on panel, 34.6 x 63.81 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Billowing white clouds and the steeples and smokestacks of the bustling Belgian city of Antwerp are…

Duck Island (1906)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Duck Island 1906 Oil on canvas, 52.07 x 80.01 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The broken brushstrokes, dappled light, and unblended colors of this scene of a popular island resort off the New Hampshire coast reveal…

Bouquet de violettes dans un vase (1882)

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de (1864-1901) Bouquet de violettes dans un vase (Bouquet of Violets in a Vase) 1882 Oil on panel, 24.13 × 18.73 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This delightful, subtle still life was painted when the artist was…