Flâneur

Wynnstay, Seat of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn Bart, from a Cottage above the New Bridge over the River Dee, Denbigh Shire, plate two from Twelve Views in North Wales

Paul Sandby, 1776

Aquatint and etching in sanguine on ivory laid paper

Arlésiennes (Mistral)

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903), 1888

Oil on jute canvas

During the winter of 1888, Paul Gauguin spent a troubled two months with Vincent van Gogh in the southern French city of Arles. He painted the enigmatic Arlésiennes (Mistral) during this stay. The painters’ time together was intended to be the beginning of an artist’s colony, but their relationship grew increasingly tense, and Van Gogh’s mental health deteriorated. Set directly across the street...

The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque

Paul Cezanne (French, 1839–1906), c. 1885

Oil on canvas

In a letter to his friend and teacher Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne compared the view of the sea from L’Estaque to a playing card, with its simple shapes and colors. The landscape’s configuration and color fascinated him. This painting is one of more than a dozen such vistas created by the artist during the 1880s. Cézanne divided the canvas into four zones—architecture, water, mountain, and sky....