L’église San Giorgio Maggiore, Venise (1908)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) L’église San Giorgio Maggiore, Venise (The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice) 1908 Oil on canvas, 64.7 cm × 92 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In his series of paintings devoted to the church of San Giorgio Maggiore,…

Bords de l’Oise près de Pontoise (1873)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Bords de l’Oise près de Pontoise (The Banks of the Oise near Pontoise) 1873 Oil on canvas, 38.1 cm × 55.2 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Pissarro’s landscape was painted at the dawn of the Impressionist era. Its…

La danse champêtre (c.1706-1710)

Watteau, Antoine (1684-1721) La danse champêtre (The Country Dance) c.1706–1710 Oil on canvas, 50 x 60.01 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In this, his earliest known painting, Watteau draws inspiration from scenes of fairs, peasant weddings, and country dances by Flemish…

Les joies de la maternité (c.1754)

Fragonard, Jean-Honoré (1732-1806) Les joies de la maternité (The Joys of Motherhood) c.1754 Oil on canvas, 57 x 38-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Idealized visions of the pleasures of local country life were popularized in the 1740s by Charles-Simon Favart…

The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (c.1617)

Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) The Entry of Christ into Jerusalem c.1617 Oil on canvas, 151 × 229.2 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis In 1618, Peter Paul Rubens referred to the young Anthony van Dyck as “the best of my pupils.” This…

Christ jaune (1889)

Bernard, Émile (1868-1941) Christ jaune (Yellow Christ) 1889 Oil on canvas, 27-9/16 x 23-5/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis The artists of Pont-Aven were moved by the piety of the Breton people and often painted religious themes. Here Bernard presents Christ…

Port-en-Bessin (1888)

Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Port-en-Bessin 1888 Oil on canvas, 66 x 83.2 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis In the summer of 1888, Georges Seurat worked in Port-en-Bessin, a small fishing village in Normandy. He painted six views of the seaport and its…

Place du Théâtre Français, Paris: Pluie (1898)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) Place du Théâtre Français, Paris: Pluie (Place du Théâtre Français, Paris: Rain) 1898 Oil on canvas, 73.66 x 91.44 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis After a chronic eye infection limited the amount of time Camille Pissarro could spend…

La récolte des betteraves (1881)

Pissarro, Camille (1830-1903) La récolte des betteraves (The Beet Harvest) 1881 Gouache over graphite [?] on linen, 25.72 x 37.78 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis French Impressionist artist Camille Pissarro was an avowed anarchist who strongly opposed the existing social and…