Impressionism

Paul Cezanne’s 1895 portrait woman with a Coffee Pot is probably of a servant or café employee known by the Cézanne family. It combines elements of portraiture and still life, as well as Impressionism and Cubism. The sitter faces the artist squarely – the crease down the front of her dress creates a dividing line […]

1874’s Bridge at Hampton Court is unusual for Alfred Sisley in that it contains people, however small, they are at leisure on the far bank of the River Thames. Sisley’s Impressionist works, which focused on the changeable effects of light, were painted en plein air or in the open air. A British citizen, Sisley spent

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.

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

Hanging the Laundry out to Dry is an 1875 painting in the Impressionist style by the leading female French artist Berthe Morisot. This work is located in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., United States. Analysis of Morisot’s Hanging the Laundry out to Dry Hanging the Laundry out to Dry by Berthe Morisot

Edouard Manet’s undated painting Gypsy with a Cigarette was never exhibited during the artist’s lifetime – it was found in his studio after his death and is considered an unfinished work. As part of the Impressionist movement, Édouard Manet’s work is often characterized by genre subjects caught in the act of daily life. This canvas,

A master of landscape painting, Camille Pissarro 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 the

This oddly-dimensioned canvas was originally part of a much larger work by French painter Édouard Manet called Incident in the Bull Ring which showed both the dead toreador and the bull who had defeated him. After receiving criticism about the painting’s composition, the artist cut the 1864 canvas into two separate paintings, allowing them individually

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

The Quays at Rouenis an Impressionist painting by Frenchman Camille Pissarro. It features the River Seine at Rouen looking east with a variety of day-to-day activities in the frame including pedestrians, factories, and boats. The Quays at Rouen was painted in the autumn between September and November 1883 when Camille Pissarro was living in Rouen

Woman and Child at the Well is an 1882 painting by French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro. Analysis of Woman and Child at the Well French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro focused the early stage of his career painting the typical moments of peasant life and the people around him as can be seen in Woman and

Jungle Tales is a painting by Sir James Jebusa Shannon depicting the artist’s wife reading a book to his daughter and an unknown girl, presumably a friend of his daughters, before bedtime. The name of the canvas is likely a reference to the famous ‘Jungle Book’ which was released a year earlier to the painting.

The Rue Mosnier with Flags is an 1878 Impressionist painting by French artist Édouard Manet. Analysis of The Rue Mosnier with Flags The picture depicts the day of June 30, 1878, which was the first celebration day for the birth of the Third French Republic in France, which is now celebrated as Bastille Day on