The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train by Claude Monet

“Monet is only an eye, but my God what an eye!” - Paul Cezanne 'The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of ...

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Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) by John Singer Sargent

"I never judge, only chronicle." Today it’s probably hard to believe that this portrait of a young ...

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La Chevelure by Henri-Edmond Cross

The hidden face behind a thick curtain of hair is the sole object of La Chevelure (Hair) by Henri-Edmond ...

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The Milliners by Paul Signac

"Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance." Paul Signac's ...

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Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt

“I have had a joy from which no one can rob me – I have been able to touch some people with my art.” ...

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Portrait of Emile Zola by Edouard Manet

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate ...

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Place de la Concorde by Edgar Degas

It is very well to copy what one sees; it's much better to draw what one has retained in one's memory. ...

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Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte

It's one  of those paintings that come to symbolize a whole city. Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street; ...

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The Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet

"You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate ...

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Le Bassin aux Nympheas by Claude Monet

"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment." Le ...

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Le Talisman by Paul Serusier

Nature merely supplies us with inert materials. A human mind alone can arrange them in such a way that, ...

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Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent Van Gogh

"I have a portrait of Dr. Gachet with the heart-broken expression of our time." Van Gogh wrote to ...

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Portrait of Pere Tanguy by Vincent van Gogh

"An admirable demolisher of academic formulae, [who] also had a genius for light..." - August Rodin  Everyone ...

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Windmill in the Gein by Piet Mondrian

This painting by the famous Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) is filled with the warm glow of ...

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Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

So lively, so fluid, so rich - these are some of the words that best describe Auguste Renoir's Luncheon ...

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Irma Brunner by Edouard Manet

Pierre-Auguste Renoir observed that Manet was as important to them “as Cimabue or Giotto were to the ...

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Dancers in Pink by Edgar Degas

Considered to be the best draughtsman of his generation, Edgar Degas called his work the result of “premeditated ...

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The House of Parliament, Stormy Sky by Claude Monet

Claude Monet, probably the most famous French Impressionist painter, always found the subjects for his ...

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Still Life with Bottle and Apple Basket by Paul Cezanne

Probably the most famous still life painter of the last 200 years - Paul Cezanne, is credited with laying ...

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Rain, Steam and Speed by JMW Turner

JMW Turner's landscapes have a divine, surrealistic and symbolic quality. His paintings may be viewed ...

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Two Sisters by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The girls in this painting titled Two Sisters are not actually sisters! They are young models Pierre-Auguste ...

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The Boulevard Montmartre at Night by Camille Pissarro

"Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul ...

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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

"Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science." George Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande ...

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