9 October 2017

Claude Monet. Woman with Parasol turned to the Right (‘Essai de figure en plein-air: Femme à l'ombrelle tournée vers la droite), 1886 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris).


Oil on canvas: 130.5 x 89.3 cm. Plein-air study with Suzanne Hoschedé as the model. Pendant with ‘Woman with Parasol turned to the Left’: here. Photo credit: Jean Louis Mazieres.

Visit > Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
More > Claude Monet at Wikipedia.

6 October 2017

Harold Williamson. Spray, 1939 (Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth).


Oil on canvas: 60.5 x 85.8 cm. Harold Williamson (1898-1972) the Manchester painter/ teacher, not to be confused with Harold Sandys Williamson (1892-1978).

Visit > Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth.
More > Harold Williamson at Art UK.

28 September 2017

François Boucher. The Bird Catchers, 1748 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).



Oil on canvas: 294.6 x 337.8 cm(!). ‘The Bird Catchers’ and its pendant ‘The Fountain of Love’, were finished cartoons for a series of tapestries known as the ‘Noble Pastorales’.

Visit > J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
More > Google Arts & Culture.
More > François Boucher at Wikipedia.