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Northeaster (1895, 1901)

Homer, Winslow (1836-1910) Northeaster 1895; reworked by 1901 Oil on canvas, 87.6 x 127 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York On the Maine coast, a “nor’easter” is a storm of exceptional violence and duration. When Homer first showed this canvas…

Effet coucher de soleil: le rivage à Trouville (c.1866)

Courbet, Gustave (1819-1877) Effet coucher de soleil: le rivage à Trouville (Sunset Effect: The Shore at Trouville) c.1866 Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 101.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford In the mid-1860s, Courbet visited the fashionable resort of Trouville on the Normandy…

Alone with the Tide (1861)

Whistler, James Abbott McNeill (1834-1903) Alone with the Tide (Coast of Brittany) 1861 Oil on canvas, 87.3 x 115.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted this seascape in Brittany, on the northwest coast of France. He focused on…

Rochers à Belle-Île, Port-Domois (1886)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Rochers à Belle-Île, Port-Domois (Rocks at Belle-Île, Port-Domois) 1886 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Compare: Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Port-Domois, Belle-Isle 1887 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven     See also: • Belle-Île-en-Mer (France)