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A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

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Description: A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
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Description: Degas at Harvard
In his memoirs, Paul Joseph Sachs, Harvard Class of 1900, professor of fine arts, and associate director of the Fogg Art Museum, wrote: “Indeed, I have given proof of my faith by collecting twenty-nine works by Degas, for I am convinced that he was one of the greatest nineteenth-century French artists ...
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Related print edition pages: pp.13-75
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00035.005
Description: Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
The flâneur, the purposeful male stroller, was a principal performer in the theater of daily life in Paris in mid-century, if we judge by his importance in writings of the era. A journalist, writer, or illustrator, he looked about with the acute eye of a detective, sizing up persons and events with a clinical detachment as though natural events could tell him their own...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.33-57
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00067.006

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