Detail View: The AMICA Library: Lisière d'un bois
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1951.356
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AMICA Library Year:
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1998
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Pissarro, Camille
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1830 - 1903
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Birth Place:
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Danish Virgin Islands
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Camille Pissarro
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Title:
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Edge of the Woods
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Title Type:
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Primary
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Title:
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Lisière d'un bois
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Title Type:
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Foreign
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1879
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Creation Start Date:
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1879
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Creation End Date:
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1879
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Materials and Techniques:
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oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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Unframed: 126cm x 162cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1951.356
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Credit Line:
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Gift of the Hanna Fund
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Inscriptions:
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Signed lower left: "C. Pissarro 79"
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Rights:
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Context:
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Pissarro painted this monumental landscape when he was desperately poor and struggling to sell his paintings. It depicts a man slumbering in the sundappled backwoods of the Hermitage, a rural village near Pontoise, where the artist had been living since1872. Restricting his pallette to pure hues, Pissarro applied brushstrokes in systematic diagonal patterns, producing an effect that he likened to knitting. This canvas was included in the fourth Impressionist exhibition of 1879.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1951.356.tif
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