COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
MIA_.87.45
AMICA Library Year:
2001
Object Type:
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name:
Guillaumet, Gustave Achille
Creator Nationality:
European; French
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Dates/Places:
1840 - 1887
Gender:
M
Creator Name-CRT:
Gustave-Achille Guillaumet
Title:
View Near Barbizon
View:
Front
Creation Date:
about 1878 - 1880
Creation Start Date:
1878
Creation End Date:
1880
Materials and Techniques:
watercolor on white wove paper
Dimensions:
H.11-3/8 x W.8-3/4 in.
Component Measured:
overall
Measurement Unit:
in
AMICA Contributor:
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location:
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number:
87.45
Credit Line:
Gift of the Print and Drawing Council
Context:
Gustave-Achille Guillaumet studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon beginning in 1861. He led a successful career and was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1878. Guillaumet is best known as an Orientalist for his many paintings of North Africa. In all his works, including the watercolor on view, Guillaumet is interested in the problems of light and atmosphere. In View near Barbizon, he magnifies a small fragment of the Forest of Fontainebleau and uses watercolor to examine the ways in which light filters through the leaves and branches of the trees.
Related Image Identifier Link:
MIA_.8374c.tif
