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TitleRace Horses at Longchamps

Creator nameDegas, Edgar

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1871–1874

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions13 3/8 x 16 1/2 in. (34 x 41.9 cm)

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31229

Accession number3.1034

SubjectsImpressionism (Art)--FranceHorse racing in artHippodrome de Longchamp (Paris, France)Painting, French--19th century

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Catalogue

George T. M. Shackelford, Fronia E. Wissman

Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet

Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, born in Toulouse in 1750, was one of many French artists who went to Italy. These artists wanted to study the works of Renaissance masters and to absorb the flavor of the countryside around Rome that had inspired the great seventeenth-century French painters resident there, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Valenciennes went to Italy...

Author

George T. M. Shackelford, Fronia E. Wissman

PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

Related print edition pages: pp.56-239

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00245.002

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Chapter subject tags:Landscape painting, FrenchBarbizon schoolLandscape photographyImpressionism (Art)--FrancePost-impressionism (Art)--France

4. The Impressionist Agenda

Albert Boime

Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution

~I WANT to begin this chapter with the case study of Gustave Caillebotte, both patron of, and participant in, the Impressionist collective. He was the youngest (born 1848) and most well off of the group, and the most conservative in style and content. His major works attest to a thorough assimilation of the rhetoric of...

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Albert Boime

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.77-113

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00021.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19161&redirecttoanchor=42427

Chapter subject tags:Paris (France)--History--Commune, 1871Impressionism (Art)--FranceCaillebotte, Gustave, 1848-1894Painting, French--19th centuryArt and society--France--History--19th centuryLabor in art--France--19th centuryArt and industry--France--19th centuryGrands boulevards (Paris, France)--19th centuryHaussmann, Georges Eugène, baron, 1809-1891Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917

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