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A city skyline is silhouetted in plum purple against a vivid peach and butter-yellow sky in this horizontal landscape painting. The brilliant sky is reflected in the water below, where a boat is moored along a riverbank. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes throughout. A wedge-shaped piece of olive green could be land or a dock in the lower right corner of the composition. A few people standing near the boat tied to a pier there are loosely painted with strokes of dark green and gray. A shallowly arched bridge marches across the river in the middle distance. Two towers and…

The Seine

Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859 - 1937)

c. 1902 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Gift of the Avalon Foundation

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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