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From behind a low stone wall, on which a young woman with pale skin sits, we look across a wide, shimmering blue waterway toward a town along the opposite shore, under a pale blue sky with wispy white clouds in this horizontal landscape painting. The caramel-brown, stone wall runs across the lower right corner, into the distance to our right. The woman sits on our side of the wall with her legs angled to our right, and she twists to lean onto her right hand, on our left, as she looks down toward the water. Her brown hair and face are shaded by the pale, shell-pink umbrella she holds in her…
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The Harbor at Lorient

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 - 1895)

1869

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 43.5 x 73 cm (17 1/8 x 28 3/4 in.) ; framed: 64.7 x 95.2 x 7.6 cm (25 1/2 x 37 1/2 x 3 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
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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