J. M. W. Turner Tree Tops and Sky, Guildford Castle 1807

J. M. W. Turner - Tree Tops and Sky, Guildford Castle 1807

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From Tate Britain:
In 1805, Turner took a holiday exploring the Thames, and its tributary the Wey, by boat. The tour produced an outstanding body of oils painted directly from nature, some painted aboard his boat. Besides larger studies on canvas, of which two are shown in this room, he made a series of very freely handled sketches on mahogany panel. Like this distant view of Guildford Castle, they are often painted on a wide, shallow format from a low viewpoint, focusing mainly on trees and sky.

Lise Tréhot, Renoir’s first mistress, model, and muse, is here depicted with
quiet eroticism by that artist’s friend and colleague, Bazille. Dressed in North
African costume, Tréhot poses in the Left Bank studio that Bazille and Renoir
shared in the late 1860s. Among the most promising members of the Parisian
avant-garde, Bazille did not live to see the flowering of Impressionism in the
following decade. - ArtsViewer.com

Paul Cézanne 'The card players 1892' Each painting depicts Provençal peasants
immersed in smoking their pipes and playing cards. The subjects, all male, are
displayed as studious within their card playing, eyes cast downward, intent on
the game at hand. Cézanne adapted a motif from 17th-century Dutch and French
genre painting which often depicted card games with rowdy, drunken gamblers in
taverns, replacing them instead with stone-faced tradesmen in a more simplified
setting. - art-Cezanne.com

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Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851