Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Maison en Provence (House in Provence) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 25-1/2 x 32 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Cézanne loved the landscape of his home in southern France and devoted much of his career to painting it.…
Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) Portico veneziano (Venetian portico / Imaginary Portico) c.1760 Gouache on paper, 53 x 39 cm Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris The picture combines realism and fantasy, using a technique that was quite unusual for Guardi: gouache on paper, which gives the…
Caillebotte, Gustave (1848-1894) Régate à Trouville (Regatta at Trouville) 1884 Oil on canvas, 60.3 × 73 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo In a view that seems like an uncomposed snapshot, summer villas hug the cliffs above the English Channel at Trouville,…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Intérieur avec un écran (Interior with a Screen) c.1909–1910 Oil on paper, laid on cardboard and panel, 35.8 x 23.8 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Like many of Édouard Vuillard’s paintings, this intimate work is painted on paper,…
Utrillo, Maurice (1883-1955) Rue à Sannois (Street in Sannois) c.1912 Oil on canvas, 54 x 81 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London Maurice Utrillo is known for his depictions of Paris and its outskirts, in which figures are often incidental or completely…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Femme à la fenêtre (Woman at a Window) 1871 Oil on paper, 78 x 63 cm Courtauld Institute of Art, London This scene of a woman profiled against a bright window seems serene. However, the English artist Walter Sickert,…
Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895) Eugène Manet à l’Ile de Wight (Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight) 1875 Oil on canvas, 38 × 46 cm Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris On December 22, 1874, Berthe Morisot married Eugène Manet at the Church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy…
Bramante (1444-1514) Cristo alla colonna (Christ Tied to the Column) 1487–1490 Oil on panel, 93.7 x 62.5 Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Bramante was trained in Urbino, a center of mathematical studies where the use of perspective had been developed as a form…
Rousseau, Henri (1844-1910) Rue de village (Village Street) 1909–1910 Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 35.9 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia
Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Pont-Neuf, après-midi, soleil (Afternoon Sunshine, Pont Neuf) 1901 Oil on canvas, 73 x 92.1 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Compare: Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Pont-Neuf 1902 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Le Pont Neuf, effet de neige…