Alphonse Mucha Daydream

Alphonse Mucha Daydream/Reverie (1896) A beautiful Art Nouveau Lady. Alfons Maria Mucha, often known in English and French as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs. Mucha’s work has continued to experience periodic revivals of interest …

Sandro Botticelli The Birth Of Venus

Sandro Botticelli The Birth Of Venus (1486) The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a 1486 painting by Sandro Botticelli. Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence, specifically Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici under the influence of his cousin Lorenzo de’ Medici, close friend to Botticelli. It …

Vincent Van Gogh The Church At Auvers

Vincent Van Gogh The church in Auvers-sur-Oise, view from the Chevet 1890 Fine Art Painting The Church at Auvers is an oil painting created by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in June 1890 which now hangs in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, France. The actual church is in Place de l’Eglise, Auvers-sur-Oise, France, 27km …

Claude Monet The Japanese Footbridge

Claude Monet The Japanese Footbridge (1899) Japanese Footbridge is an oil painting by Claude Monet. It was painted in 1899. In 1893 Monet moved to a house in rural Giverny. In 1893 and the years following, he turned a swampy area at Giverny into a water lily pool. It became a source of artistic inspiration. …

Ernst Haeckel Sea Anemones

Ernst Haeckel Sea Anemones Marine Vintage Illustration The 49th plate from Ernst Haeckel’s natural history book ‘Kunstformen der Natur’ (Art Forms In Nature) of 1904, showing various sea anemones classified as Actiniae. Victorian era science illustration in lush colors. Sea anemones are a group of water-dwelling, predatory animals of the order Actiniaria. They are named …

Alphonse Mucha Flirt

Alphonse Mucha Flirt Biscuits Lefevre-Utile (1895) Art Nouveau vintage advertising poster. “Flirt” was one of the brands of biscuits made by Lefevre-Utile, who gave Mucha a number of commissions over the years. Mucha was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, …

Leonardo Da Vinci Ginevra De’ Benci

Leonardo Da Vinci Ginevra De’ Benci (1474) Ginevra de Benci was an aristocrat from fifteenth-century Florence, admired for her intelligence by Florentine contemporaries. She is the subject of a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The oil-on-wood portrait was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., United States, in 1967. Buy Leonardo …

Edgar Degas The Dance Lesson

Edgar Degas The Dance Lesson (1879) Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, although he rejected the term, and preferred to …

Henri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy

Henri Rousseau The Sleeping Gypsy (1897) The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohemienne endormie) is an 1897 oil painting by French Naive artist Henri Rousseau. The fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night is one of the most recognizable artworks of modern times. Henri Julien Felix Rousseau was a …

Camille Pissarro The Boulevard Montmartre At Night

Camille Pissarro  The Boulevard Montmartre At Night (1897) Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter. His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the …

Johannes Janson A Formal Garden

Johannes Janson A Formal Garden (1766) Johannes Janson is known for his idyllic landscapes filled with animals and village scenes. They were painted in the style of seventeenth-century Dutch artists such as Paulus Potter, whose paintings he copied. Many of Janson’s patrons were members of Leyden’s upper middle class who wanted a painted visual record …

Vincent Van Gogh Vase With Irises

Vincent Van Gogh Vase Of Irises Against A Yellow Background Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. While in the asylum at Saint-Remy, France, Van Gogh overcame a period of crisis (ending in April 1890). …

Claude Monet Water Lilies

Claude Monet Waterlilies (1907) Water Lilies (or Nympheas ) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet. The paintings depict Monet’s flower garden at Giverny. Current location: Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art Buy Claude Monet posters and prints at Fine Art America

Hans Hoffmann A Hare In The Forest

Hans Hoffmann A Hare In The Forest (1528) Hans Hoffmann was a German painter and draftsman who is best known for his copies after works by Albrecht Durer. He is considered the best of the numerous artists who worked in Durer’s style. Buy Hans Hoffmann A Hare In The Forest prints at Fine Art America

Amedeo Modigliani Alice

Amedeo Modigliani Alice (1915) Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. He is known for portraits in a modern style characterized by elongation of faces and figures. In 1906, Modigliani moved to Paris, then the focal point of the avant-garde. Buy Amedeo Modigliani Alice prints at Fine Art America

Vincent Van Gogh Bulb Fields

Vincent Van Gogh Bulb Fields  1883 Painting Vincent Van Gogh Bulb Fields Fine Art Print Bulb Fields, also known as Flower Beds in Holland is an oil painting created in 1883 by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. Bulb Fields was Van Gogh’s first garden painting. Rectangular plots of blue, yellow, pink and red hyacinths allow …

Paul Klee Castle And Sun

Paul Klee Castle And Sun (1928) Castle and Sun is an abstract painting by Swiss artist Paul Klee. The image is created out of several geometric shapes like triangles and rectangles in various shades of color. The orange sun shines in a deep red sky, the city skyline is designed in strong lines and colorful …

John Constable Wivenhoe Park Essex

John Constable Wivenhoe Park Essex Painting 1816 John Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home, now known as “Constable Country” which he invested with an intensity of affection. Buy John Constable Wivenhoe Park Essex prints

Theodore Rousseau Wooded Landscape

Theodore Rousseau Wooded Landscape Theodore Rousseau was a French Realist painter and the leader of the Barbizon School. Rousseau studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From the 1830s onwards, Rousseau became a passionate and appreciative interpreter of nature. Buy Theodore Rousseau prints

Jean-Honore Fragonard Young Girl Reading

Jean-Honore Fragonard Young Girl Reading A Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honore Fragonard. The painting features an unidentified girl wearing a yellow saffron dress. It is one in a series of paintings by Fragonard featuring young girls. Buy Jean-Honore Fragonard prints

Theodore Rousseau Pond At The Edge Of A Wood

Theodore Rousseau Pond At The Edge Of A Wood Theodore Rousseau was a French Realist painter and the leader of the Barbizon School. Rousseau studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. From the 1830s onwards, Rousseau became a passionate and appreciative interpreter of nature. Buy Theodore Rousseau prints

Edouard Manet The Railway

Edouard Manet The Railway The Railway, widely known as Gare Saint-Lazare, is an 1873 painting by Edouard Manet. It is the last painting by Manet of his favourite model, the fellow painter Victorine Meurent, who was also the model for his earlier works Olympia and the Luncheon on the Grass. Buy Edouard Manet prints

Thomas Cole The Voyage Of Life Youth

Thomas Cole The Voyage Of Life: Youth 1842 The Voyage of Life, painted by Thomas Cole in 1842, is a series of paintings that represent an allegory of the four stages of human life: childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. The paintings follow a voyager who travels in a boat on a river through the …

Auguste Renoir Girl With A Watering Can

Auguste Renoir A Girl With A Watering Can (1876) A Girl with a Watering Can is an Impressionist painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir from 1876. The work was apparently painted in Monet’s famous garden at Argenteuil. This painting is of Mademoiselle Leclere in her blue dress holding a watering can. Buy Auguste Renoir Girl With A …

Paul Gauguin Self Portrait

Paul Gauguin Self-Portrait (1889) Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer. His bold experimentation with coloring …

Winslow Homer Breezing Up

Winslow Homer Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) 1873-1876 Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) is an oil painting by American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts a catboat called the Gloucester chopping through that city’s harbor under “a fair wind” (Homer’s original title). Inside the boat are a man, three boys, and their catch. Buy Winslow Homer …

Titian Venus With A Mirror

Titian Venus with a Mirror c. 1555 Painting Italian High Renaissance Venus with a Mirror is a painting by Titian, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The pose of the Venus resembles the classical statues of the Venus de’ Medici in Florence or the Capitoline Venus in Rome, which Titian may …

Raphael Alba Madonna

Raphael The Alba Madonna 1510 Painting The Alba Madonna is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, depicting Mary, Jesus and John the Baptist, in a typical Italian countryside. John the Baptist is holding up a cross to Jesus, which the baby Jesus is grasping. All three figures are staring at the cross. …

The Cholmondeley Ladies

The Cholmondeley Ladies Painting British School 17th century art The Cholmondeley Ladies is an early 17th-century British oil painting depicting two women seated upright and side by side in bed, each holding a baby. It was painted on a wooden panel, probably in the first decade of the 17th century. Buy The Cholmondeley Ladies prints

Paul Klee In The Style Of Kairouan

Paul Klee In The Style Of Kairouan (1914 ) Watercolor Painting Paul Klee’s highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was also a student of orientalism. After Klee’s visit to Tunisia, where he was inspired by the quality of light, he returned home with the determination …

Gustav Klimt Hope II

Gustav Klimt Hope II (Abandoned Hope ) 1908 Painting Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body; his works are marked by a frank eroticism. …