Detail View: The AMICA Library: View Near Barbizon
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AMICA ID:
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MIA_.87.45
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AMICA Library Year:
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2001
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Guillaumet, Gustave Achille
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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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1840 - 1887
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Gustave-Achille Guillaumet
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Title:
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View Near Barbizon
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View:
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Front
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Creation Date:
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about 1878 - 1880
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Creation Start Date:
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1878
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Creation End Date:
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1880
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Materials and Techniques:
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watercolor on white wove paper
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Dimensions:
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H.11-3/8 x W.8-3/4 in.
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Component Measured:
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overall
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Measurement Unit:
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in
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Owner Location:
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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ID Number:
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87.45
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Credit Line:
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Gift of the Print and Drawing Council
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Rights:
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Context:
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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. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MIA_.8374c.tif
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