Portraits by Sisley, Delacroix, Cabanel, Piet Mondrian early in his career, William Morris Hunt, Astrup, Schwabe, and Claude Monet.
Sisley
Influenced by Corot, late in his career he painted several views of an avenue of poplars in the village of Moret-cur-Loing, forming an unusual series shown here.
Walnuts providing food, fine wood, and a drying oil used as an alternative to linseed; almonds that may have a high cyanide content, but are still eaten. Paintings from Piero to Bonnard.
How to distinguish sweet from horse chestnuts in paintings from Sisley, Pissarro, CĂ©zanne, Carl Larsson, Vincent van Gogh, Egon Schiele and others. And all about conkers.
Coppice stools, cut to just above ground level, and pollards cut high enough to stop them from being damaged by cattle, were commonly used to produce supplies of timber.
Paintings by Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Alfred Sisley, Vincent van Gogh. Carl Larsson, SĂ©rusier, LA Ring and others.
Is it feasible to paint optically accurate reflections quickly in front of the motif? Examples from CamilleCorot, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley demonstrate that it is.
A spectrum of purposes and styles, inspired by Émile Zola’s experimental approach to novels, documenting ordinary people with objectivity, in a neutral realism.
Hephaistos or Vulcan in classical myth, cheated on by Aphrodite/Venus, and as creator of Pandora. In Bosch’s Last Judgement, and elsewhere.
A few miles down river from Grez was the town of Moret, where Sisley lived and painted for 19 years, in poverty and isolation. Here are some examples of his Impressionist landscapes from there.
