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Impressionist Art

IMPRESSIONIST STYLE

Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.

The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.

Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.

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Style: Impressionist
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 6 x 9.25 inches Delightful early 20th century Fr...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Watercolor

"Peconic Bay" Oil painting of sea beneath blue sky with clouds, East Long Island

"Peconic Bay" Oil painting of sea beneath blue sky with clouds, East Long Island

By Angel Ramiro Sanchez

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

"Peconic Bay" is an impressionist painting of water under a sweeping cloudscape. Sail boats glide across the horizon from the right of the composition fra...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

Vintage Seascape Oil Painting on Canvas Signed Zizza  Framed, Nautical Art
Vintage Seascape Oil Painting on Canvas Signed Zizza  Framed, Nautical Art

Vintage Seascape Oil Painting on Canvas Signed Zizza Framed, Nautical Art

Located in Palm Coast, FL

This is a striking vintage oil painting on canvas, signed by artist Zizza, featuring a dramatic seascape with a tall ship navigating turbulent waters under a stormy sky. The rich imp...

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1960s Impressionist Art

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Oil

"Boat"
"Boat"

"Boat"

By Evgeny Chernyakovsky

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Original Oil painting by Ukrainian artist Evgeny Chernyakovsky "Boat" 50.0 X 70.0 CM / 19.6 X 27.5 IN HIGH QUALITY oil on canvas Signed on the front and back Dated 2023 Good conditi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

I was lost but I'm found
I was lost but I'm found

I was lost but I'm found

By Dasha Pogodina

Located in Zofingen, AG

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior. ABOUT THE ARTWORK "I Was Lost But I'm Found" from the "PERICHORESIS...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"White flowers"
"White flowers"

"White flowers"

By Roman Dub

Located in Edinburgh, GB

This painting teaches us to cherish the ‘here and now’. Flowers wilt, the light shifts, and moods pass. But in this blurriness, in this rejection of clear lines, lies the true essenc...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

Seascape
Seascape

Seascape

By Kaiko Moti

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Seascape" c.1965 is an original color aquatint on Japan paper by noted Indian artist Kaiko Moti, 1921-1989. It is hand signed and numbered XXVII/LXXV in pencil by the a...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Aquatint

Impressionistic Floral Landscape Oil Painting by Michael Budden Farm Flowers
Impressionistic Floral Landscape Oil Painting by Michael Budden Farm Flowers

Impressionistic Floral Landscape Oil Painting by Michael Budden Farm Flowers

By Michael Budden

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

Black Farm Flowers 14 x 24 oil/canvas 20 x 30 framed An oil painting on canvas that showcases the beautiful light of a summer day shinning on a field of flowers. This is one of my fa...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

Lilac flowers at the door, 1901 uplifting floral still life large oil on canvas
Lilac flowers at the door, 1901 uplifting floral still life large oil on canvas

Lilac flowers at the door, 1901 uplifting floral still life large oil on canvas

Located in Norwich, GB

Here is a painting that will lift you - one feels happy every time one looks at it. It is such a lovely, unusual twist to the theme of the floral still life: here we have flowers, not in a vase, but attached to a wooden front door. I wonder if the artist did this with actual flowers, perhaps for a sweetheart, and then decided to paint the scene? At any rate: who wouldn't want to come home to find a large bunch of glorious lilac as they come home? The artist is Emile Baudoux (1850 -1929), who studied with Humbert and Cabanel. Paris-born, he liked to work in Normandy, where he had his studio. He exhibited his work at the "Salon des Artistes Français" until 1927, where he obtained a gold medal in 1910. The important oil on canvas presented here, dating from 1901, may have been shown at the Salon, as it bears an exhibition number "30" at the upper right of the canvas. It is signed and dated at the lower left as seen in the photos. Measuring 81 x 60 cm, the overall size including its original large oak frame...

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Early 1900s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

1940's Fashion Illustration - Three Elegant Women Walking Through The Park
1940's Fashion Illustration - Three Elegant Women Walking Through The Park

1940's Fashion Illustration - Three Elegant Women Walking Through The Park

By Geneviève Thomas

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The sketch is original, vintage and me...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Gouache

Bright Green Impressionist Landscape with Figure in Dunes Mid 20th Century
Bright Green Impressionist Landscape with Figure in Dunes Mid 20th Century

Bright Green Impressionist Landscape with Figure in Dunes Mid 20th Century

By Claude Marin

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Impressionist Landscape by Claude Marin (French 1914-2001) signed oil on canvas, framed Framed: 19 x 22 inches Canvas : 13.5 x 16.5 inches Inscribed Verso Provenance: private collect...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

"Michael's Cathedral"
"Michael's Cathedral"

"Michael's Cathedral"

By Oleksandr Khrapachov

Located in Edinburgh, GB

The painting "Mikhailivskyi Sobor" opens before us a view of one of the most magnificent shrines of Kyiv, depicted from the point where the past and the present intersect - Sophia Sq...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

On the Beach - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil Painting by Dorothea Sharp
On the Beach - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil Painting by Dorothea Sharp

On the Beach - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil Painting by Dorothea Sharp

By Dorothea Sharp

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed oil on canvas figures in landscape circa 1920 by English impressionist painter Dorothea Sharp. This incredible piece depicts bathers enjoying a day at the beach. In the foreground is a seated woman wearing a hat who is knitting or embroidering, and by her side a baby sleeps on a blanket in the shade of the rocks. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 22"x26" Unframed: 14"x18" Provenance: Private collection - Australia Dorothea Sharp was a landscape, flower and figurative painter. She studied both in London and in Paris. Dorothea Sharp studied art in Richmond before joining London's Regent Street Polytechnic, where her teachers included David Murray and George Clausen. She also studied in Paris where she was introduced to the work of the Impressionists and in particular Claude Monet. She was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (from 1907), the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (1922) and the Society of Women Artists (1908). She lived in London, working at studios in Maida Vale. In the 1920s and 1930s she travelled in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. In 1928 she was appointed an honorary member of the St Ives Society of Artists and from 1940 to 1946 she settled in St Ives, where she produced many plein air paintings of beach scenes...

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1920s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

'Early Morning River Landscape, ' by Harry L. Hoffman, Oil on Canvas Painting
'Early Morning River Landscape, ' by Harry L. Hoffman, Oil on Canvas Painting

'Early Morning River Landscape, ' by Harry L. Hoffman, Oil on Canvas Painting

By Harry L. Hoffman

Located in Oklahoma City, OK

In this gilt wood framed oil on canvas waterscape, American Impressionist artist Harry Hoffman depicts the last moments of a morning sunrise over a river in predominant hues of lavender, purple, pink and blue. The sky is reflected in the water below with a sandy brown beach and large green tree in the foreground. Harry Leslie Hoffman was born in Cressona, a small community in Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill Valley. His mother was an amateur artist who encouraged her son to pursue a career in the arts. In 1893, Hoffman entered the School of Art at Yale University and studied with John Ferguson Weir, the son of Robert Walter Weir. After graduation in 1897, Hoffman moved to New York to continue his studies at the Art Students League. He also traveled to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julien. In the summer of 1902, Hoffman attended the Lyme Summer School of Art, in the town of Old Lyme on the Connecticut coast. The school was headed by Frank Vincent Dumond and was located in a boarding house owned by Florence Griswold. The school eventually grew into an artists’ colony and a center for American Impressionism. When Hoffman first arrived as a student, he was not permitted to stay in the house which was designated for the professional artists only. However, his outgoing personality soon won him many friends at the colony. In 1905, Hoffman settled in Old Lyme and worked as a full member of the artist colony. He was particularly influenced by Willard Leroy Metcalf, an Impressionist also working in Old Lyme. Fellow artists later fondly recalled Hoffman’s antics at the Griswold house, which included playing the flute and banjo, tap-dancing, singing humorous songs, and performing magic tricks. In 1910, Hoffman married another Old Lyme artist named Beatrice Pope, and the couple had one child in 1921. Hoffman and his wife often escaped New England during the harsh winter months. In the winters of 1914 and 1915 he traveled to Savannah, Georgia with fellow Old Lyme artist William Chadwick...

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1930s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Shimmering Sea English 1920's Signed Oil Painting Rolling Waves Barnstable Bay
Shimmering Sea English 1920's Signed Oil Painting Rolling Waves Barnstable Bay

Shimmering Sea English 1920's Signed Oil Painting Rolling Waves Barnstable Bay

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Barnstable Bay by Charles Dunlop Tracey (British, 1870-1948) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 18 x 24 inches canvas: 12 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: ...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

"Fantasy with Flowers 249" mixed , paper, 59x42cm, unframed
"Fantasy with Flowers 249" mixed , paper, 59x42cm, unframed

"Fantasy with Flowers 249" mixed , paper, 59x42cm, unframed

Located in Zofingen, AG

This artwork seamlessly fuses delicate linework with vibrant splashes of color, creating a harmonious garden scene. Central to the piece are ethereal butterflies, their wings painted...

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2010s Impressionist Art

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Watercolor

"Still life with lilacs"
"Still life with lilacs"

"Still life with lilacs"

By Evgeny Chernyakovsky

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Before us is a delicate, vibrant still life with a lush bouquet of lilacs, painted in a free, emotional style. The composition is built around a rounded, light-colored vase, from whi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Original oil painting on board, European Cityscape, Unsigned, Framed
Original oil painting on board, European Cityscape, Unsigned, Framed

Original oil painting on board, European Cityscape, Unsigned, Framed

Located in Palm Coast, FL

Up For Sale is an Original Oil Painting On board, depicting an urban scene, capturing the everyday life of a town or city's older quarter. The artist has chosen a loose, expressive s...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Autumn evening
Autumn evening

Autumn evening

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

This plain air sketch is a quiet autumn landscape painted in Opalikha, masterfully capturing the image of a calm forest scene. In the center of attention is a majestic oak tree, the ...

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2010s Impressionist Art

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Oil, Cardboard

Impressionist French Village Scene with Church and Thatched Cottages
Impressionist French Village Scene with Church and Thatched Cottages

Impressionist French Village Scene with Church and Thatched Cottages

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Impressionist French Village Scene with Church and Thatched Cottages by Fanch Lel Signed: Bottom right corner Size: 15 x 18 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unf...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

20th Century French Oil Painting A Coastal Village
20th Century French Oil Painting A Coastal Village

20th Century French Oil Painting A Coastal Village

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

A Coastal Village French School, mid-late 20th century unsigned oil painting on canvas textured paper (reverse side is smooth, the painted side looks and feels as canvas), unframed o...

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Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Hilltown-Neighbors Chat" Impressionist Pastoral Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed
"Hilltown-Neighbors Chat" Impressionist Pastoral Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed

"Hilltown-Neighbors Chat" Impressionist Pastoral Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed

By Christopher Willett 1

Located in New York, NY

A charming Impressionist winter snow-covered pastoral scene depicting a neighbor's chat in the Hilltown Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This piece is executed in an intimate ...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil, Board

Riverside Cottage in Spring Kennebunkport Maine Pallet Knife Impasto Texture
Riverside Cottage in Spring Kennebunkport Maine Pallet Knife Impasto Texture

Riverside Cottage in Spring Kennebunkport Maine Pallet Knife Impasto Texture

Located in Soquel, CA

William Fisher (1891 - 1985) William Fisher was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1891. He studied at the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science and at Pratt Institute. Following service as an ambulance driver in WWI, he remained in Europe after the war and studied painting in Rome, Italy for one year. Upon his return from Rome, to New Jersey, he pursued his painting and began to teach small art classes. In the 1920's Fisher became a successful illustrator. His work appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Mc Calls, Harpers and other popular magazines. He later did pen and ink sketches for the Villager, a weekly Greenwich Village newspaper. Microfilmed pages of the Villager are preserved in New York University's Washington Square Library. His sketches also appeared on the cover of the Gotham Guide, which was sold Fridays at news stands in Manhattan. In partnership with Margaret Kilburn, an artist and crafts person, Fisher opened an art gallery and school at 33 West 8th St in NYC during the 1930s. They also opened a summer art gallery and school in 1949 in Kennebunkport, Maine, which ran for many years, and, after the NY gallery closed (around 1952), they made a full time commitment to living and working in Kennebunkport, Maine. Fisher was the recipient of over 100 awards. His work was widely exhibited in Philadelphia, Pa., Montclair, Trenton, and Newark, NJ, the Currier Gallery in New Hampshire and the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine. William Fisher and Margaret Kilburn were familiar and beloved figures in Kennebunkport. They taught generations of local children, and they participated in numerous exhibits with other artists, both in the Kennebunkport area and throughout Maine. Mr Fisher always insisted on marching in the local Memorial Day parade, until he was well in his 90's, because he didn't want to ride in a car provided for older veterans. Many homes in the Kennebunks have his works, including members of the Bush family, and they were purchased by numerous out of state and Canadian summer visitors. There are several examples of his works in the Kennebunkport Town Offices and in local churches. Fisher loved to paint "big" canvases, usually local Maine scenes...

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1950s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Sunset
Sunset

Sunset

By Tanja Frost

Located in Zofingen, AG

This sun sets slowly, as if it knows that no one will ever see it like this again. It doesn’t touch the water with light, but with memory. Everything grows quiet — not from silence, ...

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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Over the Pond, Evening Light" contemporary impressionist seascape through trees
"Over the Pond, Evening Light" contemporary impressionist seascape through trees

"Over the Pond, Evening Light" contemporary impressionist seascape through trees

By Viktor Butko

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

An oil painting of a seascape at sunset by Contemporary Russian Impressionist Viktor Butko. Tall, skinny, birch trees stretch across the foreground and up towards the sky. Behind the...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Linen, Oil

1930'S FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST SIGNED OIL - FISHERMEN ON WOODEN PUNT ON RIVER
1930'S FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST SIGNED OIL - FISHERMEN ON WOODEN PUNT ON RIVER

1930'S FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST SIGNED OIL - FISHERMEN ON WOODEN PUNT ON RIVER

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1930's, indistinctly signed to the lower corner. Title: River Landscape with Fishermen from wooden punt. Medium: oil painting, on canvas. S...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Vintage American School Signed Impressionist Flower Still Life Rare Oil Painting
Vintage American School Signed Impressionist Flower Still Life Rare Oil Painting

Vintage American School Signed Impressionist Flower Still Life Rare Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American impressionist flower still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 32 by 38 inches overall. Handso...

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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Landscape Sunset Ceramano Paint 19th Century Oil on canvas Old master France
Landscape Sunset Ceramano Paint 19th Century Oil on canvas Old master France

Landscape Sunset Ceramano Paint 19th Century Oil on canvas Old master France

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

Charles Ferdinand Ceramano (Thielt 1829 – Barbizon 1909 ) Signed and dated lower right: “1897, Ceramano” Landscape at Sunset with a Flock Grazing oil on canvas 114 x 147 cm. ...

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19th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

1900's French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Elderly Lady in Mirror
1900's French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Elderly Lady in Mirror

1900's French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Elderly Lady in Mirror

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Portrait of an Elderly Lady, mirror behind French Impressionist artist, late 19th/ early 20th century extensively inscribed verso with details oil on canvas canvas: 22 x 18.5 inches ...

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Late 19th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

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