Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Wheatfield
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Wheatfield
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Image View:
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Overall view without frame
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Creator:
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French painter, 1841-1919)
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Location:
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repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. (CTB.1961.11)
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Location Note:
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Paseo del Prado, 8
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GPS:
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+40.416111-3.695
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Date:
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1879 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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French
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Style Period:
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Impressionist; Nineteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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50.5 cm (height) x 61 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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agriculture; landscape; en plein air
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Description:
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This landscape shows a wheat field near Wargemont, in Normandy, where Renoir spent several summers at the estate of his friend and patron, the banker Paul Bérard. Like Renoir’s earlier landscapes, this later picture was painted outdoors, in one or more sessions. Wheatfield was painted at a time when Renoir’s early success had brought him numerous commissions for portraits. By contrast, this landscape is remarkable for its simplicity and its blunt rejection of anecdote and picturesque detail. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothyssen.org/en/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-RENOIR-TBM-WH-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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