This oil sketch is one of several Seurat made for his monumental painting, ' Bathers at Asnières', of 1884. In contrast to the other sketches the artist has here concentrated on the figures themselves at the expense of the landscape setting. The reclining man & the figure in a swimming costume reappear in the final painting. ...
Seurat made more than fifty oil studies & drawings for his second large-scale canvas, ' Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' (about 1884-6, Art Institute of Chicago). This sketch, one of the earliest, would have been painted in the open air at La Grande Jatte, an island in the Seine immediately opposite the riverbank which the artist depicted in ' Bathers at Asnières'. ...
Four female figures, two seated & two standing, are shown. There is a close variant of the composition in the Musee du Petit Palais, Paris. During his stay in Paris in the 1860s Monticelli began to paint 'fetes galantes', depicting elegantly-dressed wome ...
Two standing women & a seated dog are seen in what may be a park. No specific subject has been identified. This painting was formerly in the collection of the Dutch artist & collector Hendrik Willem Mesdag (1831 - 1915) whose museum opened in The Hague ...
Puvis de Chavannes was widely admired in his day for the grandeur & decorative subtlety of his large-scale, multi-figure compositions of allegorical subjects. This image of utopian dream represents ' Summer', & is also known as ' The Harvest'. It is a p ...
Country people of different social classes are shown going about tasks associated with the summer months, including sheep shearing, hunting & fishing. The painting, framed by an elaborate gilded arch, was probably part of a room decoration, & the trun ...
The subject has not been identified. Four women are shown, perhaps below a vine. Another image, depicting the standing figure of a woman, is painted on the reverse.
The subject has not been identified. Four women are shown, perhaps below a vine. Another image, depicting the standing figure of a woman, is painted on the reverse.
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