"The Wilde Woman of Aiken," from the "Aiken and Vicinity" series

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...

From his earliest years as a painter, Monet’s art was rooted in the direct and prolonged analysis of nature. Throughout his career, he grappled with the task of developing techniqu...

In addition to painting scenes of street life with picturesque characters inspired by his years in Rome, Sweerts also produced a few portraits as well as a series of half-length an...