How To Find Out What A Painting Is About

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1 1. Claude Monet, French, ; Boulevard des Capucines, ; oil on canvas; 31 5/8 x 23 3/4 inches; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Purchase: the Kenneth A. and Helen F. Spencer Foundation Acquisition Fund, F72-35 Photo: Jamison Miller 2. Édouard Manet, French, ; The Rue Mosnier with Flags, 1878; oil on canvas; 25 3/4 x 31 3/4 inches; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 89.PA Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French, ; The Grand Boulevards, 1875; oil on canvas; 20 1/2 x 25 inches; Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Henry P. McIlhenny Collection in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, 1986, Charles Marville, French, ; Rue Des Lavandières, c.1868; albumen print from collodion glass negative; 11 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Photo: Joshua Ferdinand

2 5. Adolphe Terris, French, ; Great Works of Marseille, Opening of the Rue Impériale, View of the Site Taken from the Boulevard des Dames, 1863; albumen print from collodion glass negative; 14 1/8 x 15 11/16 inches; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Photo: Tiffany Matson 6. Frédéric Bazille, French, ; The Ramparts at Aigues-Mortes, 1867; oil on canvas; 23 5/8 x 39 3/8 inches; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington 7. Unknown photographer, Tree Study with a Horse-Drawn Carriage and a Portrait of a Photographer, c.1860; albumen print from collodion glass negative; 12 x 9 7/8 inches; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Photo: Tiffany Matson 8. Giraudon s Artist, French, act. 1870s; Female Peasant in Profile, with Scythe, c.late 1870s; albumen print from collodion glass negative; 6 5/8 x 4 7/16 inches; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Photo: Joshua Ferdinand

3 9. Claude Monet, French, ; The Promenade with the Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil, 1874; oil on canvas; 21 1/8 x 28 3/8 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Sydney M. Shoenberg Sr. 45: Claude Monet, French, ; Railroad Bridge, Argenteuil, 1874; oil on canvas; 21 3/8 x 28 7/8 inches; Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection, 1917, Cat Camille Pissarro, French, ; Factory Near Pontoise, 1873; oil on canvas; 18 3/8 x 22 inches; Michelle and Donald D Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, The James Philip Gray Collection, Photography by David Stansbury 12. Édouard-Denis Baldus, French (born Prussia), ; Approach to the Mountain Pass at Donzère, c.1861; albumen print from collodion glass negative; 12 11/16 x 17 3/16 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Museum Purchase 195:1977

4 13. Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, French, ; The Ascent of Mont Blanc, 1861; albumen print from collodion glass negative; 15 9/16 x 9 5/16 inches; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2005, Image copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY 14. Gustave Le Gray, French, ; Group of Ships Departing Le Havre, c.1856; albumen print from collodion glass negative; 12 1/8 x 16 inches; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Photo: John Lamberton 15. Gustave Le Gray, French, ; The Pont du Carrousel, Paris: View to the West from the Pont des Arts, ; albumen print from collodion glass negative; 14 7/8 x 19 3/16 inches; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Patrons Permanent Fund, Image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington 16. Édouard-Denis Baldus, French (born Prussia), ; Pont du Gard, c.1861; albumen print from collodion glass negative; 10 11/16 x 17 1/8 inches; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Photo: Joshua Ferdinand

5 17. Gustave Doré, French, ; Deer in a Pine Forest (Vosges), c.1865; oil on canvas; 76 7/8 x 51 3/8 inches; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Gift of the family of Tillie S. Speyer in her memory, 80.9 Photograph 2013 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 18. Charles-François Daubigny, French, ; Fields in the Month of June, 1874; oil on canvas; 53 x 88 inches; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis V. Keeler, Class of 1911, Photography courtesy of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University 19. Adalbert Cuvelier, French, , printed by: Alphonse-Louis Poitevin, French, ; Effect of Fog, 1852, printed 1855; photolithograph; 9 9/16 x 12 13/16 inches; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Gift of the Hall Family Foundation, Photo: Joshua Ferdinand 20. Edgar Degas, French, ; Henri Rouart in front of his Factory, c.1875; oil on canvas; 25 3/4 x 19 7/8 inches; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Acquired through the generosity of the Sarah Mellon Scaife Family, Photograph 2013 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

6 21. Édouard Manet, French, ; On the Beach Boulogne, 1868; oil on canvas; 12 3/4 x 26 inches; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Photo: Katherine Wetzel