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Boussod et Valadon

French, est. 1884 - closed 1919

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We look across a river at a long, flat bridge that runs parallel to a hazy, city skyline in the distance in this horizontal painting. The scene is painted with visible dashes and strokes of mostly pastel blue, ivory white, muted mauve purple, and navy blue. The flat bridge spans the width of the composition along the horizon, which comes a third of the way up the canvas. The sky above is filled with clouds painted in muted tones of cream white, pale blue, and a few touches of shell pink, which mirror the water below. Along the horizon, buildings with spires and towers stretch from our right about two-thirds of the way across the canvas. To our left, a cluster of several boats, tiny in scale, gather near the bridge. Closer, and to our right, three larger ferries are crowded with passengers who are represented by minuscule daubs of brightly colored paint, mostly in black, golden yellow, crimson red, sky and cobalt blue, and ivory white. These boats are painted in short, flat brushstrokes in bands of flame red and midnight blue. The artist signed and dated the work at the lower left: "C. Pissarro, 1890."
Camille Pissarro, Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1890, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1985.64.32

Charing Cross Bridge, London

Camille Pissarro · 1890 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1985.64.32

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Washerwomen on the Banks of the Marne

Léon Augustin Lhermitte · 1898 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.30

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Picking Fruit at Ariccia

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1860/1875 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.143.7

Alfred Stevens, Young Woman in White Holding a Bouquet, c. 1865/1875, oil on wood, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.65

Young Woman in White Holding a Bouquet

Alfred Stevens · c. 1865/1875 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1963.10.65

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The Boulevard

Jean François Raffaëlli · c. 1900/1905 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.43

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, Forest Scene, 1874, oil on wood, Gift of R. Horace Gallatin, 1949.1.4

Forest Scene

Narcisse Diaz de la Peña · 1874 · oil on wood ·  Accession ID  1949.1.4

Shown from the knees up, a woman stands facing us as she turns her head to look off to our right in this vertical portrait painting. The woman has pale, peachy skin, deeply shadowed, hooded eyes, and a straight nose. Shadows fill the hollow of her high cheekbones, and she has a thin face. Her black hair is plaited and tied up and back under brown bands. Earrings hang from each ear, and she wears two strands of white and gray pearls and three red necklaces. Her shoulders slope down, and her arms hang by her sides. The garnet-red bodice of her dress is cut low over a white undergarment. Red straps loop up over her mostly bare shoulders. Sapphire-blue sleeves leave the shoulders exposed and have black bands at the cuffs, which fall short of her wrists. An apron tied around her waist is loosely painted with deep red flowers and dark green leaves against a parchment-brown background. Her long skirt is midnight blue in the shadows. She holds a shimmering object in her right hand, to our left, and rests her other hand on the brown stone wall that runs behind her thighs. A tree edges into the scene along the right, and a few white stucco houses with flat, red roofs cluster on a rocky hill in the distance behind the woman, to our left. The cliffs span most of the background and end in a sheer face near the right edge of the canvas. The sky is tinged with peach at the horizon glimpsed at the foot of the cliff but is mostly steely gray. The artist signed the lower left corner, “COROT.”
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Agostina, 1866, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.108

Agostina

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot · 1866 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.108

James McNeill Whistler, Grey and Silver: Chelsea Wharf, c. 1864/1868, oil on canvas, Widener Collection, 1942.9.99

Grey and Silver: Chelsea Wharf

James McNeill Whistler · c. 1864/1868 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.9.99

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Landscape

Jean-Charles Cazin · after 1876 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.24

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Square in Paris

Jean François Raffaëlli · n.d. · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.44