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1958.5.134 - Painting
Oil painting of three female figures in a wooded clearing; the female figure at left, bare-breasted and draped in white, walks towards two women seated by a small pond. The women at right are draped in pink and blue, respectively. Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña was initially seen as an outsider for his unwillingness to "prettify" nature, but was later admired as a leader of the Barbizon school: a group associated with the Forest of Fontaineb...
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1958.5.137 - Painting
Standing blonde woman in 18th Century pink costume over open white skirt front, elbow sleeves with deep white lace ruffel; her left hand is examined by seated fortune teller at right; trees and three figures in background. . Initially, Narcisse Diaz de la Peña was seen as an outsider for his unwillingness to beautify nature, as the Romantic artists of the time did. But later, he became a leader of the Barbizon School, associated with France’s...
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