The 1000++ Artworks created around 1875

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Claude Monet - Gare Saint Lazare, PariGare Saint Lazare, PariClaude Monet

When he painted The Saint-Lazare Station, Monet had just left Argenteuil to settle in Paris. After several years of painting in the countryside, he turned to urban landscapes. At a time when the critics Duranty and Zola exhorted artists to paint their own times, Monet tried to diversify his sources ...

Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France)
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Edouard Manet - OlympiaOlympiaEdouard Manet

Though Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe sparked controversy in 1863, his Olympia (1863) stirred an even bigger uproar when it was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon. What shocked contemporary audiences was not Olympia's nudity, nor even the presence of her fully clothed maid, but her confrontati...

Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France)
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Claude Monet - Madame Monet in Japanese Costume (La Japonaise)Madame Monet in Japanese Costume (La Japonaise)Claude Monet

Monet exhibited this work at the second group show of the Impressionist painters in 1876, where it attracted much attention. Large-scale figure paintings had traditionally been considered the most significant challenge for an artist. Using this format, Monet created a virtuoso display of brilliant c...

Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, United States)
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Claude Monet - The Harbour at ArgenteuilThe Harbour at ArgenteuilClaude Monet

'My only merit,' Monet wrote later in life, 'lies in having painted directly in front of nature, seeking to render my impressions before the most fleeting moments.' This is one of seventy-five works Monet painted of the Seine River in Argenteuil, a yachting center west of Paris. It combines two favo...

Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France)
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir - La GrenouillereLa GrenouillerePierre-Auguste Renoir

La Grenouillère is a masterpiece of French Impressionism, painted in 1869 by the renowned artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. This captivating oil on canvas painting measures 67 x 81 cm and is par...

Oskar Reinhart Collection (Switzerland)
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Edouard Manet - A Bar at the Folies-BergereA Bar at the Folies-BergereEdouard Manet

Edouard Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergere had a controversial placement at the Salon. This piece has scholars and critics debating even 100 years after it was painted, with its ambiguities in every detail. In the painting, a barmaid in the foreground stands behind a bar in the Folies-Berger, and w...

Courtauld Institute of Art (London, United Kingdom)
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Edouard Manet - NanaNanaEdouard Manet

Nana is a 1877 painting by Édouard Manet. The painting shows a young and beautiful woman who stands before a mirror with two extinguished candles, her face turned to the spectator. Her dress is incomplete; she wears a short sleeveless bodice, silk stockings and high heeled shoes. The interior sugges...

Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg, Germany)
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Edgar Degas - The Absinthe DrinkerThe Absinthe DrinkerEdgar Degas

L'Absinthe (The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a 1876 painting. It depicts two figures, a woman and man, who sit in the center and right of this painting, respectively. The man, wearing a hat, looks right, off the canvas, while the woman, dressed formally and also wearing a hat, stares va...

Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France)
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Paul Cezanne - Mont Sainte-Victoire (Courtauld)Mont Sainte-Victoire (Courtauld)Paul Cezanne

Mont Sainte-Victoireis is one of the series of oil paintings by Cezanne. Mont Sainte-Victoire is a mountain in France. Cezanne could see the mountain from his house, and it became the subject of a number of his paintings. These paintings belong to Post-Impressionism. Cezanne uses geometry to describ...

Courtauld Institute Galleries (London, United Kingdom)
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Vincent Van Gogh - Trees and Undergrowth 2Trees and Undergrowth 2Vincent Van Gogh

Introduction to the Painting

Vincent van Gogh's 'Trees and Undergrowth 2' is a stunning example of post-impressionist art, showcasing the artist's mastery of color and form. This painting, c...

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Henri Emilien Rousseau - A Carnival EveningA Carnival EveningHenri Emilien Rousseau

The painting shows two dark figures dressed in carnival outfits, the man looking almost like a clown; the woman in a dress with a cone shaped hat, standing in a dark forest. Their faces are difficult to make out completely, however they seem quiet and sad, unlike the joy one would expect to feel if ...

Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, United States)
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Camille Pissarro - Vegetable Garden and Trees in Blossom, Spring, PontoiseVegetable Garden and Trees in Blossom, Spring, PontoiseCamille Pissarro

The colour from the sky plays not only on therooftops, but into the plum blossoms as well. Pissarros’s delicate brushwork is evident in all aspects of the piece,with short strokes on the greenery of the vegetables and the tree blossoms, aswell as the mix of clouds and clear sky above the hilltop. Th...

Musée d'Orsay (Paris, France)
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Claude Monet - Clifftop Walk at PourvilleClifftop Walk at PourvilleClaude Monet
67 x 82 cm, (1882)

The Cliff Walk at Pourville is an 1882 painting by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet. It currently resides at the Art Institute of Chicago. This piece is a landscape portrait and is one of the rare paintings in which Monet includes human beings. The Cliff Walk at Pourville is about the s...

Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
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Vincent Van Gogh - Le Moulin de la GaletteLe Moulin de la GaletteVincent Van Gogh

Le Moulin de la Galette is the subject and title of several paintings made by Vincent van Gogh in 1886 of a windmill. The Moulin de la Galette was near Van Gogh's apartment with his brother, Theo in Montmartre. The owners of the windmill maximized the view on a butte overlooking Paris, creating a te...

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States)

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