The French painter Corot displayed a great originality in lyrical landscape painting. He traveled to Italy three times during his life, but he only visited the subject of this work, Naples, on his first trip. From his several small sketches of Naples Castle, Mt. Vesuvius, Ischia and Amalfi, however, it would seem that this trip...
The late 1870s to the 1880s were a major turning point in the careers of Pissarro and the other Impressionists. We can find evidence of these changes in this Conversation. Here we can see Pissarro’s tendency toward pointillist techniques which would be further developed in the later 1880s under Seurat’s influence. In terms...
Cezanne’s father purchased a large mansion called Jas de Bouffan on the outskirts of Aix-en-Provence in 1859. Cezanne stayed frequently in Aix at the beginning of the 1880s where he painted the surroundings of the estate. This work was painted near the back gate of the estate. The undulations that continue from the back...
