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Ohara Koson - Two deer, pine and moon, early 20th century |
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Jules Breton - The Weeders, 1868 oil on canvas, 71.4 x 127.6 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
This is a smaller variant of a composition Breton painted in 1860 (Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha) and exhibited to wide acclaim at the Salon of 1861 and the World’s Fair of 1867 in Paris. In his autobiography, Breton described this twilight scene of peasants pulling up thistles and weeds—"their faces haloed by the pink transparency of their violet hoods, as if to venerate a fecundating star"—noting that he had discovered the subject as a "finished picture" near his native village, Courrières, in northern France.
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Nils Jakob Olsson Blommér - The Water-Sprite and Ägir’s Daughters, 1850 oil on canvas, 114 cm x 147 cm Nationalmuseum Stockholm |
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Kobayashi Kiyochika - The Taro Inari Shrine In The Rice Fields At Asakusa, 1877 - 1882 woodblock print, 20.16 × 31.75 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer - The Night, 1892 Pastel hightened with gold on paper; 32,1 x 35,2 cm Private collection |