View of the Seine ☱ Seurat ☵ Art Print Frame Color:GoldView of the Seine (1883) by Georges Seurat is one of about seventy oil studies on small wood panels, which he called croquetons (little sketches), he made at the beginning of his career. The durable boards were easily transported and held, making them ideal for painting outdoors. This is among the earliest of the studies that he made along the Seine on the outskirts of Paris, where fishermen cast their lines amid commercial barges and industrial
The Green Wave (1867
surrounded by leafless trees
"The cow-puncher took wild pleasure in existing
that my pond had become enchanted
with no definitive answer
and the distant skyline
the feeling of warm sunlight coming through the window
also known as The Golden Knight
Pictures of imaginary Persian or Ottoman princes were popular at the time
Wood was inspired to paint the house in Eldon
and possibly the most reproduced image in the history of art
It depicts a Native American man alone in the wilderness on horseback