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This canvas was painted in the Morvan, a district west of Dijon in Burgundy, which Corot visited frequently on painting expeditions in the early 1840s. His father's family had originated there, and he must have felt a particular affinity with the region. A peasant saws timber; his wife helps him. Tr...

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Born in Gruchy, France, to a family of farmers, Jean-François Millet referred to himself as the “painter of peasants.” In 1837, as a student of the history painter Paul Delaroche, he met fellow pupil Théodore Rousseau. Rousseau was the leader of Barbizon painters working in the Forest of Fontaineble...

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Visit by Dirk Lodewijk Bennewitz to Adrianus and Elisabeth Bonebakker-Du Pré and their children. A group portrait of the Bonebakker family and the partner Bennewitz, in the living room of presumably Bonebakker's house. A maid in the doorway brings tea, behind her is a look through an office. The two...

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An artist of incomparable fantasy and expressive power, Tura was court painter to the dukes of Ferrara. This scene depicts a weary Holy Family fleeing to Egypt after receiving a warning that King Herod was seeking to kill the infant Jesus. This roundel belongs to a series of three showing the early ...

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Cézanne often chose his subjects from his native region of Provence. In this image, a peasant wears a blue work smock over a brown jacket while a vermilion red scarf provides a lively color accent. Cézanne represents one of the workers from the fields and vineyards of his family home the Jas de Bouf...

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Van Gogh believed that rural laborers stood closer to nature than other people, and were more strongly linked to the cycles of life. Between 1883 and 1885, while living with his parents in Brabant, he made a series of paintings and drawings describing the humble life of the peasants there. One of th...

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Genre painting, which depicted scenes from everyday life, developed in France in the 17th Century. The Le Nain brothers were best known for their genre portraits. This piece is one of their works, and shows a peasant family sat around a table: the father, the mother and six children, along with a ca...

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The Le Nain brothers are famous for their sensitive portrayal of rural life, which they depicted without the ridicule found in many earlier images. It is often difficult to distinguish which of the three brothers executed a given painting, and this oil on copper has been attributed to both Antoine a...

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Born into a rich grain merchant family in Bulgaria and having succeeded as a satire painter early in his career, it is said that Pascin already had an air of a master when he came to Paris at the age of twenty in 1905, Having been exposed to avant-garde art such as Fauvism and Cubism, he established...

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For more than 40 years Robert Bechtle has pursued a quiet realism, working from photographs of familiar subjects to depict precise moments in time. Despite their photographic origins, however, his canvases are resolutely and finally about painting. Underneath the smooth sheen of their surfaces lies ...

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