Madame du Barry by Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun https://www.nga.gov/artworks/172073-madame-du-barry
On the right, bushes with olive and fern-green leaves dotted with lilac-purple flecks
Meintest du oliver?
On the right, bushes with olive and fern-green leaves dotted with lilac-purple flecks
We see the city of Paris from the banks of the Seine River as night begins to fall. The buildings in the distance are hazy.
A wedge-shaped piece of olive green could be land or a dock in the lower right corner
example, his pale face is painted with swipes of peach, straw yellow, stone blue, and olive
We know so much more about Dave than we otherwise would because he signed his vessels, and also inscribed them with poems, during a period of harsh anti-literacy laws.
The jar is glazed in shades of brown and olive green.
His pants are olive green and his shoes are brown.
and a grove of trees in the right third of the composition are painted in fern, olive
terre verte, red lake, and lithopone. [6] The color of the surface varies from olive
Most of the composition is filled with broadly painted areas of sage, olive, moss
On this decorative screen, Edouard Vuillard painted the Place Vintimille (now the Place Adolphe-Max), as seen from his fifth-floor apartment. Vuillard was an avid photographer, and he took snapshots from his window to use as reference for these panels.
two-thirds to three-quarters of most of the panels are filled with the lime and olive-green
In this quiet landscape scene, two men chat as they amble along a rutted road atop a dike that separates verdant woods from low-lying fields and their drainage ditches. The substantial buildings, churches, and towers that rise along the horizon may represent Amsterdam, Meindert Hobbema’s native city, but the town is so distant that it barely intrudes on the painting’s overriding sense of nature.
Outlined against the sky, the leaves of some of the trees to our left are olive or