French Impressionism – At Sunnyside – Where Truth and Beauty Meet

Renoir: Dance at Bougival II

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Claude Monet: Le Grand Canal, Venice

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Claude Monet: Nymphéas fragment

“Monet first painted the Nymphéas in 1897 and the motif occupied the artist until his death in 1926; hundreds of canvases illustrate the pond and surrounding gardens. As the series progressed, Monet’s art underwent a shift from his earlier, more precise impressionistic landscapes to increasingly indulgent and vibrant waterscapes that border on abstraction. Monet wrote…

Gautier Capucon: Thais Meditation

“Painted in 1876, Dans la prairie dates from the time that Claude Monet spent in Argenteuil, a pool of rural calm and beauty within easy reach of Paris. The picture is filled with colour, with flowers captured in darting brushstrokes that lend the work a deliberately hazy vivacity. And dominating the composition, despite the fact that she…

Camille Pissarro: Rue de l’Epicerie, Rouen

“By the time of Pissarro’s fourth visit to Rouen in 1898, he was “already familiar with the motifs there.”… On August 19, he wrote to his son Lucien: “Yesterday I found an excellent place from which I can paint the rue de l’Epicerie and even the market, a really interesting one, which takes place every…

Claude Monet: Woman with a Parasol

“Woman with a Parasol was painted outdoors, probably in a single session of several hours’ duration. The artist intended the work to convey the feeling of a casual family outing rather than a formal portrait, and used pose and placement to suggest that his wife and son interrupted their stroll while he captured their likenesses….

Exhibition: French Impressionism from MFA, Boston

“Camille, Monet’s first wife, is shown with a child in the garden of their house in Argenteuil, near Paris, where they lived between 1872 and 1877. The shimmering reds, blues, greens, and white that capture the brilliance of a sun-drenched day are applied with many small brushstrokes, whose varied shapes create the different textures of…

Exhibition: Melbourne Masterpieces 2025

Exhibition Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® 2025: French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston June 6, 2025 – October 5, 2025 “Venice, Monet had always told his wife, was “too beautiful to paint.” But when he accepted the invitation of an American friend to stay at her rented palazzo on the Grand Canal in 1908,…

Renoir: Near the Lake

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Claude Monet: Iris mauves

“One striking characteristic of Monet’s paintings of the irises in the water garden is his experimentation with unusual and unexpected vantage points. In three canvases from the 1914-1917 sequence, for example, Monet set up his easel on the Japanese bridge in the garden and painted the view looking down on the clumps of irises and…

Renoir: Luncheon of the Boating Party

Renoir: Jeune fille au ruban bleu

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Eva Gonzalès: Au bord de la mer

“Eva Gonzalès, a former student of the so-called father of Modernism, Edouard Manet, specialized in the depiction of Parisiennes, fashionable young women engaged in the quiet rituals of domestic life. With Au bord de la mer (Honfleur), Gonzalès also demonstrated her exceptional fluency with the medium of pastel. This fully-conceived composition, executed on canvas, depicts a young woman…

Claude Monet: Sandvika, Norway

“Claude Monet’s trip to Norway in 1895 was perhaps the most physically taxing of all his many painting campaigns. Touring the country with his stepson Jacques Hoschedé, who lived in Christiania (now Oslo), he was awestruck but initially frustrated in his search for good motifs amid the snow. Nevertheless, he painted 29 Norwegian scenes during…

Claude Monet: Houses of Parliament, Sunset

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Rob Riccardo: Our Place

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Robert Kahn: Trio for Oboe, Horn and Piano, op. 73

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Claude Monet: The Museum at Le Havre

“During the 1870s when he was living at Argenteuil, on the outskirts of Paris, Monet made several trips back to Le Havre, where he had grown up… Despite the fact that it is relatively large, the picture has the sketchy quality of Monet’s smaller canvases. Broken brushwork conveys the gentle movement of rippling water and…

Yenne Lee: Autumn Leaves

Jeune femme assise jouant de la guitare belongs to a group of works that Renoir painted of women and men playing the guitar. Renoir’s appreciation for “La Belle Otéro,” a dancer at the Folies-Bergère who was celebrated at the time as the embodiment of Spanish seduction, is thought to have inspired these works. Although the…

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: L’église à Essoyes

“Although Renoir would keep his rented Parisian apartment throughout his life, from the late 1880s onward, much of his time would be spent in the countryside enjoying the tranquil pleasures the retreat had to offer. Renoir’s middle son, Jean, wrote of their home in the region with great nostalgia, “Essoyes, where my mother and Gabrielle…

Pissarro: The Father of Impressionism

“Pissarro painted the present scene during the early fall of 1884, when some of the trees retained their green and others were ablaze in red, orange, and gold…The canvas depicts a small wash-house on the banks of the Epte at Bazincourt, where local women could launder their clothes…Unlike Pissarro’s well-known view of the wash-house at…

Eva Cassidy: Time After Time

“Carefully divided into hot and cold-colored areas, the composition is dominated by the undulating lines of the dress, guitar, armchair and cushion that contrast with the verticals of the background. The white dress is shaped by white gradations. Shades of blue and grey suggest the play of shade and light on the garment…” READ FULL…

Louis Valtat and Voices of Music

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Claude Monet: The Steps

“In L’Escalier, Monet has selected as his subject an unprepossessing but utterly charming corner of an old farmyard. The pale stucco walls and steeply slanting, shingled roofs form a shallow succession of jostling planes, with only a narrow strip of cloud-flecked sky visible at the top of the canvas. In compositional terms, L’Escalier is anchored…

Edgar Degas: Femme s’essuyant

“Among the pastels Degas exhibited in the final Impressionist exhibition of 1886 were ten works which marked the debut of his domestic bathers theme—“Suite de nuds [sic] de femmes se baignant, se lavant, se séchant, s’essuyant …” These scenes of the female nude à sa toilette were deemed scandalous; viewers assumed the artist’s models to…

James Taylor: Country Road

“Chemin de Pontoise, Auvers-sur-Oise depicts a sunny day in Pontoise, a bustling market town about twenty-five miles northwest of Paris where Pissarro lived in 1866-1868 and again from 1872-1882. The canvas was painted in 1876, at the apex of Pissarro’s career as an Impressionist landscape painter. Christopher Lloyd and Anne Distel have described Pissarro’s work…

Claude Monet: Cabin of the Customs Watch

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Degas’ Deux danseuses en jaune

“By the 1890s, pastel had become his most favoured medium as it allowed him a variety of techniques and, crucially, the chance to build up complex layered colour schemes, as is evident here…This is evident, for instance, in the areas of shadow and light, for instance the turquoise area by the right-hand dancer’s left leg…Degas’…

A Little Paganini and Pissarro

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