Home Gym Paintings: Dancers, Horses, Sails and Storms (page 2)

Movement and nerve: dancers, horses, sails and storms in bold color.

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Boating, Édouard Manet, 1874, oil on canvas

Édouard Manet Boating, 1874 The Met

The Horse Fair, Rosa Bonheur, 1852–55, oil on canvas

Rosa Bonheur The Horse Fair, 1852–55 The Met

The image shows a landscape with people at a campsite in the foreground. There are tents under trees, a plain leading to a hill in the background, and more hills further away.

George Catlin Expedition Encamped on a Texas Prairie. April 1686, 1847/1848 National Gallery of Art

Large marine landscape of boats on rough waves, storm clouds.

Joseph Mallord William Turner Fishing Boats with Hucksters Bargaining for Fish, 1837–38 Art Institute of Chicago

The Ballet from "Robert le Diable", Edgar Degas, 1871, oil on canvas

Edgar Degas The Ballet from "Robert le Diable", 1871 The Met

The Dance Class, Edgar Degas, 1874, oil on canvas

Edgar Degas The Dance Class, 1874 The Met

Watercolor of tiny people and horses, framed with gold flowers on navy background.

'Aliquli Jabbadar Royal Horse Inspection, Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), late 17th century Art Institute of Chicago

The Dissolute Household, Jan Steen, ca. 1663–64, oil on canvas

Jan Steen The Dissolute Household, ca. 1663–64 The Met

This is a painting of a red horse standing on a patch of tan ground, tethered by a rope to a tall brown post. The horse's reddish-brown coat is rich and glossy, with white highlights. It faces the left, with its ears pricked up.

Eugène Delacroix A Horse Hitched to a Post, c. 1820 National Gallery of Art

In the center of this painting, there is a horse-drawn cart turned away from us, facing the right. In the cart is a person wearing dark blue clothing and a dark hat, and next to them is a white-and-pink bundle that could be another person.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The Trap, 1880 National Gallery of Art

The Chess Players, Thomas Eakins, 1876, oil on wood

Thomas Eakins The Chess Players, 1876 The Met

Boy Fishing, Eastman Johnson, 1860s, oil on canvas

Eastman Johnson Boy Fishing, 1860s Cleveland Museum of Art

This painting shows two people. A woman is seen from the knees up in the center, standing partially in front of the man next to her, her body facing the left and her head turned back towards us.

Jean-Louis Forain Behind the Scenes, c. 1880 National Gallery of Art

Pushing for Rail, Thomas Eakins, 1874, oil on canvas

Thomas Eakins Pushing for Rail, 1874 The Met

This painting shows a dynamic scene of a green tennis court with a player in action near the bottom-right corner, their hand extended behind their head and one leg in the air.

George Bellows Tennis Tournament, 1920 National Gallery of Art

The Gulf Stream, Winslow Homer, 1899; reworked by 1906, oil on canvas

Winslow Homer The Gulf Stream, 1899; reworked by 1906 The Met

Golden sunlight pours across a landscape with three people on horseback and two more people near a flock of sheep, a cow, and a mule in this horizontal painting. The people all have pale, peachy skin.

Aelbert Cuyp Horsemen and Herdsmen with Cattle, 1655/1660 National Gallery of Art

Ovid among the Scythians, Eugène Delacroix, 1862, oil on paper, laid down on wood

Eugène Delacroix Ovid among the Scythians, 1862 The Met

The image shows a landscape with trees, hills, and mountains under a partly cloudy sky. In the foreground, there is a tipi surrounded by figures dressed in traditional attire interacting with a horse.

George Catlin The Cheyenne Brothers Starting on Their Fall Hunt, 1861/1869 National Gallery of Art

Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion, Eugène Delacroix, 1849–50, oil on paperboard

Eugène Delacroix Arab Horseman Attacked by a Lion, 1849–50 Art Institute of Chicago

Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair), William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1855, oil on fabric

William-Adolphe Bouguereau Arion on a Sea Horse and Bacchante on a Panther (pair), 1855 Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin), Edgar Degas, 1879, distemper, metallic paint, and pastel, on canvas

Edgar Degas Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin), 1879 Art Institute of Chicago

George Harley Drummond (1783–1855), Henry Raeburn, ca. 1808–9, oil on canvas

Henry Raeburn George Harley Drummond (1783–1855), ca. 1808–9 The Met

Three light-skinned, dark-haired ballerinas, painted in muted tones, wear off-the-shoulder yellow leotards and tutus as they huddle near each other. One adjusts her costume, while one holds her hands clasped above her head.

Edgar Degas Yellow Dancers (In the Wings), 1874–76 Art Institute of Chicago

The Calm Sea, Gustave Courbet, 1869, oil on canvas

Gustave Courbet The Calm Sea, 1869 The Met

We look slightly down into a lime-green and white rowboat carrying a woman holding a baby and a man in this nearly square painting. The man wears midnight-blue shoes, pants, jacket, and soft, floppy cap.

Mary Cassatt The Boating Party, 1893/1894 National Gallery of Art

Bullfight in a Divided Ring, Francisco de Goya, ca. 1810, oil on canvas

Francisco de Goya Bullfight in a Divided Ring, ca. 1810 The Met

Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, Aelbert Cuyp, ca. 1652–53, oil on canvas

Aelbert Cuyp Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman, ca. 1652–53 The Met

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin The House of Cards, probably 1737 National Gallery of Art

Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Hunt, Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1615, oil on canvas

Peter Paul Rubens Diana and Her Nymphs Departing for the Hunt, c. 1615 Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows a wide expanse of land with a horizon featuring rolling hills or small mountains and sparse trees. In the foreground, a person in traditional indigenous attire is pulling on a rope tethered to a resisting horse.

George Catlin Catching Wild Horses - Pawnee, 1861/1869 National Gallery of Art

Arion on a Sea Horse, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1855, oil on fabric

William-Adolphe Bouguereau Arion on a Sea Horse, 1855 Cleveland Museum of Art

From a grassy riverbank, we look across the placid surface of a river lined along the far bank with trees and farm animals in this horizontal landscape painting.

John Constable The White Horse, 1818-1819 National Gallery of Art

Whalers, Joseph Mallord William Turner, ca. 1845, oil on canvas

Joseph Mallord William Turner Whalers, ca. 1845 The Met

Six men on horseback and wearing jockeys’ uniforms line up on a grassy field in front of us in this loosely painted horizontal scene. The jockeys and horses’ features are especially freely painted so much of the detail is indistinct.

Edgar Degas The Riders, c. 1885 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a man standing upright, his body slightly turned to the right.

Francisco de Goya Charles IV of Spain as Huntsman, c. 1799/1800 National Gallery of Art

The Villa Loredan, Paese, Francesco Guardi, early 1780s, oil on canvas

Francesco Guardi The Villa Loredan, Paese, early 1780s The Met

The Clove - A Storm Scene in the Catskill Mountains, Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1851, oil on canvas

Jasper Francis Cropsey The Clove - A Storm Scene in the Catskill Mountains, 1851 Cleveland Museum of Art

We look slightly down onto the surface of a river in which three narrow canoes, each paddled by a single person, are being rowed toward us in this horizontal landscape painting.

Gustave Caillebotte Skiffs, 1877 National Gallery of Art

The Drummond Children, Henry Raeburn, ca. 1808–9, oil on canvas

Henry Raeburn The Drummond Children, ca. 1808–9 The Met

In a dance studio, two ballerinas wearing knee-length tutus and ballet slippers sit on a bench and stretch to our right while four more pose at the back of the space, to our left, in this long, horizontal painting.

Edgar Degas Before the Ballet, 1890/1892 National Gallery of Art

The Dancing Class, Edgar Degas, ca. 1870, oil on wood

Edgar Degas The Dancing Class, ca. 1870 The Met

José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito, Francisco de Goya, ca. 1810, oil on canvas

Francisco de Goya José Costa y Bonells (died l870), Called Pepito, ca. 1810 The Met

Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada, Édouard Manet, 1862, oil on canvas

Édouard Manet Mademoiselle V. . . in the Costume of an Espada, 1862 The Met

Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound, John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas

John Frederick Kensett Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound, 1872 The Met

We look slightly down onto a panorama with dozens of pale-skinned men, women, and children skating and standing on a frozen river in this horizontal landscape painting.

Hendrick Avercamp A Scene on the Ice, c. 1625 National Gallery of Art

In a lush, tree-lined park, filtered light falls across a group of about a dozen light-skinned people lounging and frolicking along the banks of a river in this vertical landscape painting.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard A Game of Horse and Rider, c. 1775/1780 National Gallery of Art

Painting of a light-skinned woman dressed in a gauzy white gown with black trim playing an upright paino.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Woman at the Piano, 1875–76 Art Institute of Chicago