Impressionism

Edgar Degas: Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpincon

Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpincon: Edgar Degas

Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpincon is a depiction of the only daughter of Edgar Degas‘ childhood friend Paul, at whose country estate this was painted around 1876. Dressed in white and a light-colored hat, Mlle. Hortense Valpincon is set apart from both the darks and the bright variation of warm colors of this domestic interior. …

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Vincent Van Gogh: The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow

The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow: Vincent Van Gogh

The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow is an 1885 Post-Impressionist painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Analysis of The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow Painted during a stay with his parents in 1885, The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow is marked by muted and bleak color and tone. Vincent …

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Camille Pissarro: Boulevard Montmartre, Morning, Cloudy Weather

Boulevard Montmartre, Morning, Cloudy Weather: Camille Pissarro

A master of landscape painting, Camille Pissarro’s health forced him to limit his time painting outside near the end of his life, and Boulevard Montmartre, Morning, Cloudy Weather is one such example. Wanting to focus more on city painting, the artist took a room in a hotel in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris, where, over …

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Eugène Boudin: Twilight over the basin of Le Havre

Twilight over the basin of Le Havre: Eugène Boudin

Eugène Boudin and lifelong friend Claude Monet spent time together in the 1870s in Le Havre in North-West France where Twilight over the basin of Le Havre is set. It was during this time that Monet painted his masterpiece Impression, Sunrise, for which the Impressionism art movement is named for. Eugène Boudin’s Twilight over the …

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