Claude Monet, Poplars (1891)

Claude Monet spent most of his youth in the port city of Le Havre. There he exhibited amusing depictions he had painted of local characters in the window of a framer’s shop. Eugène...

As a young artist in Paris Monet he was particularly impressed with the work of Courbet and Manet. During the 1860s he painted large-scale, ambitious works in an effort to attain f...

Claude Lorraine, whose artistic inspiration derived from the Roman Campagna, can be considered one of the great figures of 17th-century classical landscape painting. He arrived in ...

Pissarro’s landscape are usually inhabited and worked. Traditional landscapes often incorporate ancient ruins and timeless figures in harmony with nature, such as bathers or nymphs...