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.
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.
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.
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 led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art, while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.
