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1715

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(death of Louis XIV, ruling as the Sun King 1661-1715)

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Rococo

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A style, primarily of interior design, that appeared in France around 1700. Rococo interiors featured lavish decoration, including small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, easel painting, tapestries, reliefs, wall paintings, and elegant furniture. The term Rococo derived from the French word rocaille (‘pebble”) and refereed to the small stones and shells used to decorate grotto interiors.

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fête galante

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French “amorous festival. “A type of Rococo painting depicting the outdoor amusements of French upper-class society.

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Enlightenment

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The Western philosophy based on empirical evidence that dominated the 18th century. The Enlightenment was a new way of thinking critically about the word and about humankind, independently of religion, myth, and tradition.

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1776

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America declares its independence from Great Britain

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Neo-Classicism

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A style of art ad architecture that emerged in the late 18th century as part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures. Neoclassical artist adopted themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome.

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exemplum virtutis

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Latin, “example or model of virtue”

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1789

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beginning of the French Revolution

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Romanticism

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A Western cultural phenomenon beginning around 1750 and ending about 1850, that gave precedence to feeling and imagination over reason and thought. More narrowly, the art movement that flourished from about 1800 to 1840. (c.1780-1850)

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1789

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the beginning of French Revolution

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1804-14

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Napoleon is Emperor of France

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etching

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A kind of engraving in which the design is incised in a layer of wax or varnish on a metal plate. The parts of the plate left exposed are then etched by the acid in which the plated is immersed after incising.

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aquatint

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a print resembling a watercolor, produced from a copper plate etched with nitric acid.

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subjectivism

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the doctrine that knowledge is merely subjective and that there is no external or objective truth.

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optical mixture of color

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The visual effect of juxtaposed complementary colors.

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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(founded 1848) group of English 19th-century artists who consciously sought to emulate the simplicity and sincerity of the work of Italian artists from before the time of Raphael.

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lithograph

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A printing making technique in which the artist uses an oil-based crayon to draw directly on a stone plate and then wipes water onto the stone. When ink is rolled onto the plate, it adheres to the drawing.

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Daguerreotype

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A photography made by an early method on a plate of chemically treated metal; developed by Louis J.M. Dauguerre.

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Calotype

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From the Greek kalos, “beautiful”. A photographic process in which a positive image is made by shining light through a negative image onto a sheet of sensitized paper.

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Wet plate photography

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An early photographic process in which the photographic plate is exposed, developed, and fixed while wet.

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albumen print

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First, a thin piece of paper is coated with an emulsion containing both egg white (albumen) and salt. A subsequent immersion in a bath of silver nitrate renders the paper light-sensitive. The paper is next dried in the dark, then placed in a frame under a glass negative and exposed in direct sunlight until the image achieves the proper level of darkness.

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1863

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Salon des Refusés

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1874

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first Impressionism group show

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Impressionism

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A late 19th centrury art movement that saught to capturea fleeting moment, therby conveying the illusiveness and impermance of images and conditions(c.1869 - 1886)

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plein air

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An approach to painting much popular among the Impressionist, in which an artist sketches outdoors to achieve a quick impression of light, air, and color. The artist then takes the sketches to the studio for reworking into more finished works of art.

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Japonisme

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The French fascination with all things Japanese. Japonisme merged in the second half of the 19th century.

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Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Cornaro chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome, 1645-52, Italian Baroque

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Caravaggio, Conversion of Paul, Cerasi Chapel, Sta. Maria del Popolo, Rome, c.1601, Italian Baroque

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Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656, Spanish Baroque

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Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross, from Saint Walburga, Antwerp, 1610, Flemish Baroque

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Rembrandt von Rijn, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632. Dutch Baroque

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Jacob van Ruisdael, View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen, c.1670, Dutch Baroque

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Vermeer, Allegory of the Art of Painting, 1670-75, Dutch Baroque

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Nicolas Poussin, Et in Arcadia Ego, c.1655, French Baroque

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Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701, French Baroque

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palace and gardens of Versailles, France, begun 1669, French Baroque

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Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun, Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors), palace of Louis XIV, Versailles, c.1680, French Baroque

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Christopher Wren, Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London, Baroque in England, 1675-1710

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Germain Boffrand and Charles-Joseph Natoire, decoration of Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France, 1737-40, Rococo

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François de Cuvilliés, Hall of Mirrors, the Amalienburg, Nyphenburg Palace park, Munich, Germany, early 18th century, Rococo

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Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, France, 1717, Rococo

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, France, 1766, Rococo

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Giambattista Tiepolo, Apotheosis of the Pisani Family, ceiling fresco in the Villa Pisani, Stra, Italy, 1761-62, Rococo

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Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, England, c.1763-65, Enlightenment

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Jean-Baptiste Chardin, Saying Grace, France, 1740, Enlightenment

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Village Bride, France, 1761, Enlightenment

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William Hogarth, Breakfast Scene from Marriage à la Mode, England, c.1745, Enlightenment

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Joshua Reynolds, Lord Heathfield, England, 1787, Enlightenment

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Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe, America, 1771, Enlightenment

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John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, c.1768-70, America, Enlightenment

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Robert Adam, Etruscan Room, Osterley Park House, Middlesex, England, begun 1761, Neo-Classicism

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Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures or Mother of the Gracchi, England, c.1785, Neo-Classicism

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Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, France, 1784-85, Neo-Classicis

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David, Death of Marat, France, 1793, Neo-Classicism

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Richard Boyle and William Kent, Chiswick House, near London, England, begun 1725, Neo-Classicism

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Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Panthéon (Sainte Geneviève), Paris, France 1755-92, Neo-Classicism

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Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA, 1770-1806, Neo-Classicism

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Jefferson, Rotunda and Lawn, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1819-26, Neo-Classicism

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Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington, France, 1788-92, Neo-Classicism

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David, Coronation of Napoleon, France, 1805-1808, Neo-Classicism under Napoleon

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Pierre Vignon, La Madeleine, Paris, France, 1806-43, Neo-Classicism

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Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus, Italy, 1808, Neo-Classicism

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Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon at the Pesthouse at Jaffa, France, 1804, Neo-Classicism under Napoleon

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Anne-Louis Girodet, Burial of Atala, France, 1808, Neo-Classicism

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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque, France, 1814, Neo-Classicism

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Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer, France, 1827, Neo-Classicism

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Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, 1781, England, Romanticism

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William Blake, Ancient of Days, frontispiece to Europe: A Prophecy, 1794, England, Romanticism

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Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, from Los Caprichos, 1796-98, Spain, Romanticism

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Goya, The Family of Charles IV, 1800, Spain, Romanticism

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Goya, The Third of May, 1808, at Madrid: The Shootings on Principe Pio Mountain, 1814, Spain, Romanticism

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Goya, Saturn Devouring One of His Children, 1819-23 (fresco, transferred to canvas), Spain, Romanticism

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Géricault, Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19, France, Romanticism

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Géricault, Insane Woman (Monomania of Envy), 1822-23, France, Romanticism

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Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, France, Romanticism

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Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830, France, Romanticism

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Delacroix, Lion Hunt, 1854, France, Romanticism

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Rude, The Departure of the Volunteers in 1792 (La Marseillaise), Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1833-36, France, Romanticism

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Caspar David Friedrich, Abbey in an Oak Forest, 1809-10, Germany, Romanticism

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John Constable, The Hay Wain, 1821, England, Romanticism

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Slave Ship, 1840, England, Romanticism

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Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, 1836, America, Romanticism

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Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868, America, Romanticism

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Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860s, America, Romanticism

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Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin, Houses of Parliament, London, England, 1835- [Neo-Gothic]

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John Nash, Royal Pavilion, Brighton, England, 1815-18 [Indian Gothic]

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Charles Garner, the Opéra, Paris, France, 1861-74 [Neo-Baroque]

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Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849, France, Realism

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Courbet, Burial at Ornans, 1849-50, France, Realism

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Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners, 1857, France, Realism

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Honoré Daumier, Rue Transnonain, 1834, France, Realism

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Daumier, Third-Class Carriage, c.1862, France, Realism

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Rosa Bonheur, The Horse Fair, 1853-55, France, Realism

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Wilhelm Leibl, Three Women in a Village Church, 1878-82, Germany, Realism

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Winslow Homer, Veteran in a New Field, 1865, America, Realism

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Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, 1875, America, Realism

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Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Thankful Poor, 1894, America, Realism

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Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free, 1867, America, Realism

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Henri Labrouste, reading room of the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, France, 1843-50 [Renaissance Revival using cast iron]

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Joseph Paxton, Crystal Palace, London, England, 1850-51; enlarged and relocated at Sydenham, England, 1852-54 [‘undraped construction’ in cast iron]

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Nadar [Gaspard-Félix Tournachon] Eugène Delacroix, c.1855 [wet-plate photograph, modern print from the original negative]

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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Still Life in Studio, 1837, daguerreotype

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Timothy O’Sullivan, A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1863, 1863 [negative by O’Sullivan, albumen print by Alexander Gardner]

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Eadweard Muybridge, Horse Galloping, 1878, calotype multiple camera motion studies

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John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1852, England, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix, c.1863, England, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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Édouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1863, France, Impressionism

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Manet, Olympia, 1863, France, Impressionism

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Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1881-82, France, Impressionism

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Claude Monet, Impression - Sunrise, 1872, France, Impressionism

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Monet, Saint-Lazare Train Station, 1877, France, Impressionism

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Monet, Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (in Sun), 1894, France, Impressionism

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Gustave Caillebotte, Paris: A Rainy Day, 1877, France, Impressionism

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Camille Pissarro, La Place du Théátre Français, 1898, France, Impressionism

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Berthe Morisot, Villa at the Seaside, 1874, France, Impressionism

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876, France, Impressionism

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Edgar Degas, Ballet Rehearsal, 1874, France, Impressionism

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Degas. The Tub, 1886, France, Impressionism

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Mary Cassatt, The Bath, c.1892, America, Impressionism

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, c.1875, America, Impressionism

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