Dose of Art #102: Claude Monet – Woman with a Parasol / Madame Monet and Her Son (1875)
What better way to start the week after this cold and snowy weekend than with this sunny painting by Monet? […]
19th century
Dose of Art #101: Pere Borrell del Caso – Escaping Criticism (1874)
Trompe-l’œil is French for ‘deceiving the eye’, and that is exactly what Pere Borrell del Caso tries to do. […]
Dose of Art #98: Herbert Draper – The Lament of Icarus (c. 1898)
Mythology has always been a popular subject for painters (and their buyers), but for some reason, there are only a […]
Dose of Art #97: Edgar Degas – Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli (c. 1865)
Thérèse was the sister of Edward Degas and was married to her first cousin Edmondo. The portrait was probably painted […]
Dose of Art #93: Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Duel After the Masquerade (1857-1859)
A grey, misty, morning in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. The ground is covered with snow, a sword and some […]
Dose of Art #90: Rosa Bonheur – Ploughing in the Nivernais (1849)
It is clear who are the starts in this painting: the Charolais oxen and the land they plough. The Nivernais […]
Dose of Art #89: Juan Luna – Las Damas Romanas (1882)
His name may be Spanish but Juan Luna was a Filipino painter. The Philipines were in Spanish hands when […]
Dose of Art #85: Edward Burne-Jones – The Beguiling of Merlin (c. 1872-1877)
Not mythology but the Arthurian legend inspired Burne-Jones for this painting. The sorcerer Merlin was so in love with The […]
Dose of Art #81: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot – The Letter (c. 1865)
Corot began his career as a landscape painter but later in life turned to portraits. The letter shows an anonymous […]
Dose of Art #80: Ivan Shishkin – Morning in a Pine Forest (1889)
Shiskin (1832-1898) was a landscape painter and an art professor. His most famous painting Morning in a Pine Forest features […]