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Sunset

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Description: Sunset

TitleSunset

Creator nameFrançais, Louis

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1878

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/32619/sunset

Accession number37.598

SubjectsSun--Rising and settingBarbizon schoolLandscape painting, French

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George T. M. Shackelford, Fronia E. Wissman

Description: Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet

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...

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George T. M. Shackelford, Fronia E. Wissman

PublisherMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

Copyright© 2002 by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Related print edition pages: pp.56-239

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

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21134&redirecttoanchor=63927

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

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