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Houses in Argenteuil

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Description: Houses in Argenteuil
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Description: Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture
Gardens were a favorite subject of impressionist painters. Their rich and fecund images of a blooming, apparently natural world, often engulfing the human figures enclosed within it (fig. 9.1), have in their turn become a source of delight today. The huge modern popularity of impressionist renderings of gardens and other landscapes both derives from and fuels a...
PublisherMIT Press
Related print edition pages: pp.243-283
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00056.013
Description: Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society
In 1886, when Louis Barron published his book on the environs of Paris, the national census showed that only 20% of the inhabitants of the suburbs had been born in the commune they resided in. Another 24% had been born elsewhere in the suburbs or in Paris, so one could say that 44% were natives of the immediate region....
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.195-263
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00067.010

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