IMPRESSIONISM

Impressionist landscape depicting the artist's garden in Giverny

As a young artist in Paris Monet he was particularly impressed with the work of Courbet and Manet. During the 1860s he painted large-scale, ambitious works in an effort to attain fame at the Salon. Even at this early stage Monet wished to produce a monume…

From his earliest years as a painter, Monet’s art was rooted in the direct and prolonged analysis of nature. Throughout his career, he grappled with the task of developing techniques adequate to translating his sensations in a way that preserved the verac…

Claude Monet spent most of his youth in the port city of Le Havre. There he exhibited amusing depictions he had painted of local characters in the window of a framer’s shop. Eugène Boudin, who was showing his seascapes and beach scenes in the shop at the …

Zaandam Hogendijk Het Blauwe Huis In de voetsporen van Monet

Camille Pissarro lived in Pontoise in 1866–1868 and 1872–1882, and portrayed the small town and the surrounding countryside in some 300 paintings. He depicted the peasants' lives and work in the traditional agricultural landscape, but also scenes from…

“One must be simple, natural and have lots of character.” -- Letter from Camille Pissaro to his son Lucien, 28 February, 1900 In this painting, Pissarro has introduced men and women working the land, hoe in hand, in place of the shepherds in traditional …

During the last decades of the nineteenth century, the photograph rapidly replaced the painted portrait as the public’s preferred medium for recording an accurate individual likeness. The Impressionists, dedicated to the depiction of fleeting, optical rea…

After studying in Germany, Carl Trägårdh went to France in 1885. He went to the artist colony in Grez-sur-Loing for several extended periods, and was considered to be one of the Swedes of his generation who was the most closely related to the French Impre…

Paul Cézanne spent the last years of his life in retirement in his native Provence, painting the scenery and country folk around Aix-en-Provence, as well as executing numerous still lifes in the solitude of his new studio on the hillside known as Les Lauv…

L’Estaque, a small manufacturing town on the Mediterranean near Marseille, has attracted many artists. Cézanne painted his early landscapes at L’Estaque in the 1860s, took refuge there in 1870 to escape conscription during the Franco-Prussian War, and the…

The second half of the 1880s was a particularly difficult time for Cézanne. In 1885 he appears to have had an abortive romantic entanglement, which left him agitated and unbalanced. Than, in 1886, his childhood friend and strongest source of support, Emil…

Anoniem, reproductie van 'Drie danseressen' van Edgar Degas (1834-1917), print op karton, niet gedateerd, ingelijst. ...

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Oil painting from Paul Gauguin representing two Tahitian women sitting on the beach

Street in Rouen is one of the most ambitious — and largest —landscapes painted by Gauguin while living in this town in northeast France between January and November 1884. During this period, in which he ceased to be an amateur artist and began to devote …

This painting, which dates from 1888 and was made in Pont-Aven, Brittany, is one of Gauguin's most famous works. The Breton women, dressed in distinctive regional costume, have just listened to a sermon based on a passage from the Bible. Genesis (32:2…

This painting is one of six Gauguin created on Hiva Oa in the Marquesas in early 1903, the year he died. He naturalistically depicted the view inland toward the mountains from his house to which his worsening health often confined him. Behind the rock wal…

Vincent moved to Paris in 1886, after hearing from his brother Theo about the new, colourful style of French painting. Wasting no time, he tried it out in several self-portraits. He did this mostly to avoid having to pay for a model. Using rhythmic brushs…