Seurat, Georges (1859-1891) Le Chenal de Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe (The Channel of Gravelines, Petit Fort Philippe) 1890 Oil on canvas, 73 × 92.7 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis For this tranquil harbor scene in northern France, Seurat, leader of the…
Signac, Paul (1863-1935) Entrée du port d’Honfleur (Entrance to the Port of Honfleur) 1899 Oil on canvas, 41.6 × 50.5 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Animating this harbor scene is the glowing arc of a rainbow. Painted in 1899, years after…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Le Garde (The Guard) 1889 Oil on canvas, 21-7/8 x 18-3/8 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Gérôme was schooled in the rigorous exactitude of the French academic tradition as well as Romanticism’s taste for the exotic. He is…
Redon, Odilon (1840-1916) La Voile jaune (The Yellow Sail) c.1905 Pastel on paper, 23 x 18-1/2 in. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Symbolist artist Odilon Redon created images that suggest mental states or spiritual realms rather than imitations of the visible world.…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Uccello, Paolo (1397-1475) Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) 1430s-1450s Tempera and/or oil on wood panel, 61.6 x 61.6 cm Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis