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From 19th Century To 20th Century

  • Yoel Davis

Yoel Davis

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French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris / The Met

    Degas's provençal painting of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, a medieval town on the Picardy coast northwest of Paris, surveys the site from an elevated vantage point, lending a view of rooftops and façades as well as backyards and gardens.
    This landscape was not painted on site, but later in the artist's studio where he experimented with the structure of his many pictures of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme.
    The particularly ambiguous foreground and fractured elements in the background may result from the synthesis of two separate drawings sketched on site, the left half aligning with one sketch and the right another.
   The painting of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme by Degas is a landscape that was not painted on site, but later in the artist's studio
   The painting is a view of rooftops, façades, backyards and gardens
   The painting is not a typical landscape painting, but rather an experiment with the structure of his many pictures of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme
   The painting is also an experiment with the structure of his many pictures of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme
   The painting is also an experiment with the structure of his many pictures of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme

The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre

French, Laval 1844–1910 Paris / The Met

    Rousseau identified the subject of this painting in a handwritten note, affixed to its stretcher, dated 1909, the year he consigned it for sale to the dealer Ambroise Vollard.
    The scene depicts the landscape around Bicêtre, a working-class community on the southern edge of Paris near the Bièvre river (now buried underground as it courses through the city).

Moonlight, Strandgade 30

Danish, Copenhagen 1864–1916 Copenhagen / The Met

    This painting is of a parlor in the artist's apartment in Copenhagen.
    The artist used deep lavender hues and velvety brushwork to capture the effect of moonlight.
    The emptiness of the space accentuates the qualities of the illumination and the geometric patterns of the architecture.

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