Great Paintings OF All Time

The Hunters in the Snow

The Hunters in the Snow (Dutch: Jagers in de Sneeuw), also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Pieter Bruegel the El...

The Hunters in the Snow (Dutch: Jagers in de Sneeuw), also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Northern Renaissance work is one of a series of works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year. The painting is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. This scene is set in the depths of winter during December/January.

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Paris Street; Rainy Day

Paris Street; Rainy Day (French: Rue de Paris, temps de plume) is a large 1877 oil painting by the French artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) and i...

Paris Street; Rainy Day (French: Rue de Paris, temps de plume) is a large 1877 oil painting by the French artist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) and is his best-known work. It shows a number of individuals walking through the Place de Dublin, then known as the Carrefour de Moscou, at an intersection to the east of the Gare Saint-Lazare in north Paris. Although Caillebotte was a friend and patron of many of the impressionist painters, and this work is part of that school, it differs in its realism and reliance on line rather than broad brush strokes.

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