Claude Monet Gallery

Traditional Japanese Woodblock snow scene

'Hiroshige Ando (1797-1858) is often considered, along with Hokusai, the greatest Japanese printmaking artist in the 19th century. He is best known for his landscape prints. His use of perspective is known to have influenced Western impressionists such as Van Gogh and Claude Monet. A woodblock print from the Edo period showing two figures walking on a bridge over the water towards a dwelling. One hatted figure carries a bundle over the shoulder, the other carries a parcel. This print forms part of my own private collection of original woodblock prints.'

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Ships in a Harbour, Eugene Boudin (1824-1898)

Oil on panel, French School, 19th century. Eugene Louis Boudin was one of the first French landscape painters to paint outdoors. Boudin was a marine painter, and expert in the rendering of all that goes upon the sea and along its shores. Corot called him the 'king of the skies'. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1853 and late in his career began to receive prizes and accolades for his work. In 1857/1858 Boudin befriended the young Claude Monet, then only 18, and persuaded him to give up his teenage caricature drawings and to become a landscape painter. He helped to instil in him a love of colour and light and of how these can be enhanced by their reflection in water. The two remained lifelong friends and Monet later paid tribute to Boudin's early influence. Boudin joined Monet and his young friends in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1873, but never considered himself a radical or innovator. Boudin was made a member of the Legion d'Honneur in 1892

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Tannhauser au Venusberg (chalk on paper)

5196934 Tannhauser au Venusberg (chalk on paper) by Fantin-Latour, Ignace Henri Jean (1836-1904); Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK; (add.info.: a framed monochrome drawing on paper, showing: the figure of Tannhauser, dressed in black, seated to the left with a nymph draping herself over his knee; to the right, is the figure of Venus who is being attended to by two nymphs, one of whom plays a pipe; this was probably a drawing made for a book of lithographs featuring work by Fantin Latour, Claude Monet, Alphonse Legros, Theodore Ribot and others; an 1864 oil painting with same title and similar composition, by Fantin-Latour, is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA (object number: 59.62)); French, out of copyright

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