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Camille Pissarro - The Tuilleries gardens winter afternoon 1899 The Tuilleries gardens winter afternoon |
Mary Cassatt 1844–1926. American painter and printmaker who was part of the group of Impressionists working in and around Paris. She took as her subjects almost exclusively women and children. ArtsViewer.com |
From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
In December 1898 Pissarro wrote from Paris that he had "engaged an apartment at 204 rue de Rivoli, opposite the Tuileries, with a superb view of the garden, the Louvre to the left, in the background the houses on the quays behind the trees, to the right the Dôme des Invalides, and the steeples of Sainte-Clotilde behind clumps of chestnut trees. It’s very beautiful. I shall have a fine series to paint." During the following winter and spring he painted eight cityscapes looking toward the Louvre, and six, like this one, of the Tuileries Gardens with Sainte-Clotilde in the background.