Monday, October 11, 2010

Sunlight

Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
Interior at Menil-Hubert, 1892

The sunlight falling into this room as rendered by Degas more than a century ago seems to possess exactly the same clear golden quality as the October sunlight falling on San Francisco today. The Degas painting was part of large show earlier this year at the Albertina in Vienna. A few of the other light-filled pictures from that exhibition appear below.


Alfred Sisley (British, 1839-1899)
Bridge at Hampton Court, 1874


Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
Bunch of Asparagus, 1880


Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)
Laundry Drying on the Bank of the Seine, ca. 1892


Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
After the Bath, ca. 1893


Albert Besnard (French, 1849-1934)
A Meadow in the Park in Calais, 1890


Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891)
Figure in a Landscape at Barbizon, ca. 1882



Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
Portrait of Jeanne Duval, 1862


Paul Signac (French, 1863-1935)
Capo di Noli, 1898


Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
View of Vétheuil, 1881


Paul Cézanne (French, 1839-1906)
Portrait of a Farmer, 1905-06


Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)
Woman with a Parasol in a Garden, 1875-76


Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)
Street Scene in Montmarte - Le Moulin de Poivre, 1887


Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
Two Dancers, ca. 1905

Image source is here.