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…
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…
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…
Hoschedé Monet, Blanche (1865-1947) Paysage, effet de neige, le Val près de Giverny (Landscape, Snow Effect; The Valley near Giverny) 1888 Oil on canvas, 64.1 × 90.8 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Blanche Hoschedé-Monet began painting at the age of…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Meule, soleil dans la brume (Grainstack, Sun in the Mist) 1891 Oil on canvas, 60 x 100.3 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis In the late 1880s, Claude Monet analyzed visual perception by representing the same subject under varying…
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Le Pont japonais (The Japanese Bridge) c.1923–1925 Oil on canvas, 88.9 x 116.21 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis In 1883, Claude Monet moved to Giverny, about forty miles northwest of Paris. For the rest of his life, he…
Gonzalès, Eva (1849-1883) Vase de pivoines (Vase of Peonies) c.1875–1876 Oil on canvas, 79.85 × 63.34 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis Eva Gonzales was Édouard Manet‘s only formal student and modeled frequently for several members of the Impressionist group. A plethora…
Boucher, François (1703-1770) La Fontaine de Vénus (Fountain of Venus) 1756 Oil on canvas, 233 x 215 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Lighthearted, erotic decorative schemes remained popular among the French aristocracy throughout the 1700s. In this painting, part of the…
La Tour, Georges de (1593-1652) Les Larmes de saint Pierre (The Tears of Saint Peter / Saint Peter Repentant) 1645 Oil on canvas, 114 x 95 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland During Jesus’s arrest on the night of the Last Supper,…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting Dante’s Portrait c.1859 Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream wove paper, mounted to paper-backed canvas, 47.6 x 56.4 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Giotto Painting the Portrait of Dante 1852 Private collection…