Salon Collection: If you could live in a painting for a day...

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Two Women Sitting in a Garden, Eric Ravilious, Watercolour on Paper, 1932 (Fry Art Gallery)

In last month’s Salon, I asked: If you could live in a painting for a day, which one would it be and why? Thank you all for your answers; I loved reading them and have created a gallery of your responses here. Thank you all once again! I hope you enjoy the collection.

‘Paris Street; Rainy Day’, Gustave Caillebotte, Oil on Canvas, 1877 (Art Institute of Chicago)

Pianist and Checker Players, Henri Matisse, Oil on Canvas, 1924 (National Gallery of Art, East Building, Washington)

Dew-Drenched Furze, John Everett Millais, Oil on Canvas, 1889-1890 (Tate)

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat, Oil on Canvas, 1884-1886 (Art Institute of Chicago)

The Garden of Vaucresson, Edouard Vuillard, Distemper on Canvas, 1920-1936 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Sennen Cove, Laura Knight, Oil on Canvas, c. 1917 (Private Collection)

Luncheon of the Boating Party, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Oil on Canvas, 1881 (The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC)

‘The Burleigh Family Taking Tea at Wilbury Crescent, Hove’, Charles Henry Harrison Burleigh, Oil on Canvas, c. 1947 (Museum of the Home, London)

‘Rough Sea, Dorset Coast’, John Albert Cooper, Oil on Canvas, 1934

Portrait of Virginia Woolf by her sister Vanessa Bell, Oil on Board, 1912 (National Portrait Gallery, London)

In the Conservatory, Édouard Manet, Oil on Canvas, 1878-1879 (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin)

Cape Ann Granite, Edward Hopper, Oil on Canvas, 1928 (Private Collection)

The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas, 1907-1908 (Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria)

View into a Garden, Vanessa Bell, Oil on Board, 1926 (Bolton Museum and Art Gallery)

Les plaisirs du bal, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Oil on Canvas, c. 1715-1717 (Dulwich Picture Gallery)

Over the Kilkenny Fields, Bridget Flinn, Acrylic on Canvas (Private Collection)

The Red Hammock, John Lavery, Oil on Canvas, c. 1936 (Ulster Museum)

Paris Snow Scene, Christopher Wood, Oil on Canvas, 1926 (Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge)

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio, Oil on Canvas, c. 1597 (Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome)

Canal Reflections, Fern Isabel Coppedge, Oil on Canvas, c. 1930 (Avery Galleries)

The End of Dinner, Jules-Alexandre Grün, Oil on Canvas, 1913 (Tourcoing Museum of Fine Arts, France)

The House at Rueil, Édouard Manet, Oil on Canvas, 1882 (Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin)

La Grenouillère, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Oil on Canvas, 1869 (National Museum, Stockholm)

The Angelus, Jean-François Millet, Oil on Canvas, 1857-1859 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

‘The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy’, John Singer Sargent, Oil on Canvas, 1907 (Art Institute of Chicago)

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, Oil on Canvas, 1942 (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

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