Lane with Poplars is an 1885 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is in the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Germany. Analysis of Lane with Poplars Vincent van Gogh painted Lane with Poplars in 1885 and he depicts a scene near Nuenen in the Netherlands where he lived from 1883 to …
The story for The Seventh Plague of Egypt by English Romantic painter John Martin is taken from the book of Exodus in the Bible when Moses calls upon God to release on the kingdom of Egypt the seventh plague of thunder and hail so that the Israelites may be freed from slavery. Moses, on the …
Here we have Claude Monet’s wife Camille Monet on a Garden Bench portrayed in dark colours of mourning. She looks out at the viewer with a sad expression of resignation. The picture was painted in 1873, the year of Camille Doncieux’s father’s death. A man also in dark dress leans over the bench while in the …
The Morning is an 1808 painting by German artist of the Romantic era Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810). Runge was one of the most important of the German Romantic painters, along with Caspar David Friedrich, despite his short life and The Morning is a wonderful example of this. Not only was he an artist but he …
Jewish Wedding in Morocco is an 1839 Orientalist painting by the leading French artist of the Romantic period Eugène Delacroix. It is located in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Analysis of Delacroix’s Jewish Wedding in Morocco Delacroix, (1798-1863) first travelled to North Africa in 1832 and was captivated by its various cultures, remarking in …
In Landscape with Apollo Guarding the Herds of Admetus and Mercury stealing them of 1645, French Baroque painter Claude Lorrain depicts the Greek god Apollo in his guise as the god of music and herds being deceived by Mercury the messenger of the gods in his own guise as the god of thieves and trickery. …
Weymouth Bay is an 1816 landscape and seascape painting by English Romantic artist John Constable depicting a scene in South West England on the English Channel coast. British painter John Constable (1776-1837) was among the most influential of the English Romantics and profoundly inspired the likes of Eugene Delacroix. Constable was most renowned for his …
British painter John Constable’s Stonehenge from 1835 again revels in dramatic atmospheric effects as the sky is swept with broad strokes of light that signal the mysticism surrounding the prehistoric monument. There is a cohesion between Constable’s choice of subject matter and his characteristic dwelling upon the elements of nature. The sky is so quickly …
The Scholar is an 1831 painting by English genre painter Henry Liverseege which depicts a scholar studying a book. Henry Liverseege (1802-32), who produced a large number of mostly genre paintings depicting literary and folklore subjects during his short life. Here in The Scholar from 1831 we are shown a seated man dressed in a …
The Luncheon is an 1868 genre painting by leading French Impressionist artist Claude Monet. Painted relatively early in his career at the age of 28, this was before his shift to the concerns of Impressionism of the 1870s. This image, therefore, can be said to be more Realist in character with more precise depictions of …
Woman with White Shawl is an 1882 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of Woman with White Shawl This Vincent Van Gogh painting of a woman in a white shawl in a woodland avoids any kind of narrative context and represents the scene using a Post-Impressionistic distortion or rather distillation of forms down …
Seaport at Sunset is a 1639 oil on canvas seascape painting by French Baroque painter Claude Lorrain. Seaport at Sunset Analysis The picture depicts a busy seaport in a city at sunset. While daylight is ending, the activity at the seaport shows no sight of ending. We can see fishermen rowing out to sea and …
