Canaletto (1697-1768) Capriccio con palazzo (English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 134 x 108.8 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Sun pours across a landscape with trees and plants growing around and on an arched stone…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Piazza San Marco (The Square of Saint Mark’s, Venice) 1742–1744 Oil on canvas, 114.6 x 153 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Dozens of men with several women and a few children gather in pairs or small groups…
Canaletto (1697-1768) Canal Grande e Santa Maria della Salute (Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice) c.1730 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 73.66 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Painted views of towns and landscapes were enormously popular in the 18th…
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Les Nymphes et le Satyre (Nymphs and Satyr) 1873 Oil on canvas, 260.4 x 182.9 cm Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Three nymphs playfully drag a Satyr into a woodland pond, while a fourth calls to her companions…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baigneuse assise (Seated Bather) c.1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 119.7 x 93 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Following a trip to Italy in 1881–82 to study the masterpieces of ancient Roman and Renaissance painting, Renoir embarked on one…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute c.1835 Oil on canvas, 91.4 x 122.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Turner drew on his considerable experience as a marine painter and the brilliance…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) Whalers c.1845 Oil on canvas, 91.8 x 122.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Turner was seventy years old when Whalers debuted to mixed reviews at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1845. Its subject…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vue de Bougival (View of Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 57.15 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee View of Bougival epitomizes the characteristics that would come to define Pierre Auguste Renoir’s special contributions to the Impressionist…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm Oskar Reinhart Collection “Am Römerholz”, Winterthur During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La Grenouillère 1869 Oil on canvas, 59 x 80 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow During the summer of 1869, Monet and Renoir set up their easels at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing resort on the Seine River, not far from Paris. Monet noted on September 25, “I…