Object Notes

Painted from his second-floor room in the Grand Hôtel du Louvre, Camille Pissarro captures the bustling activity of a foggy winter day at the Place du Théâtre Fran

This melancholic landscape of the fishing village of Morgat was painted in 1883, on Odilon Redon's second trip to the coast of Brittany. Located about two miles from Crozon, Redon visi

Auguste Rodin’s

In I Am Beautiful, Auguste Rodin reused and

The studies leading up to Seurat's great masterpiece Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte (1884-86) constitute a review of this artist's crucial stylistic evolution during the first half of the 1880s.

This still life belongs to Paul Cézanne's mature period. The same objects appear in six other paintings, most likely made in the little town of Melun, outside Paris, where Cézanne stayed for most of 1879 and into the first months of 1880. He masterfully represented the mix of objects with a restrained harmony in a simple and balanced composition.

Paul Cézanne's landscape paintings are often centered on houses, virtually all empty, abandoned, or ruined. But with the irony common in Cézanne's oeuvre, these dwellings provide a stable center to the landscapes in which they are placed, almost as if they will be re-populated later. The rugged canvas represents an inaccessible house, its door closed, its windows shuttered.