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From high up, we look down and out at a river with seven ferries and barges, the waterway lined with buildings on the bank to our right, in this loosely painted, horizontal landscape. Dashes of muted blue, fern green, and tan create the rippling surface of the river, which fills most of the bottom half of the painting. A dark tugboat chugs out of the scene near the bottom center of the composition, and the other vessels create diagonals along the river, angled down toward the bottom right corner. Closer to us in the lower left corner of the painting, a platform edge with a railing juts out…
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The Louvre, Afternoon, Rainy Weather

painter Camille Pissarro (French, born St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1830 - 1903)

1900

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 66.68 × 81.6 cm (26 1/4 × 32 1/8 in.) ; framed: 93.66 × 109.86 × 10.16 cm (36 7/8 × 43 1/4 × 4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection, 1937)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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