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Hanging the Laundry out to Dry by Morisot
An 1875 oil on canvas painting, Hanging the Laundry out to Dry, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. Painted in Gennevilliers, an outer suburb of Paris where new housing had recently been built. The painting is a harmony of blues, lilacs, and pinks. It was shown at the Second Impressionist Exhibition in Paris. (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC).
Bibliography
- Howard, Michael. Encyclopedia of Impressionism. Thunder Bay Pr, 1997.
- Roe, Sue. The Private Lives of the Impressionists. Harper Perennial, 2007.
- Rubin, James H & Lablanche, Dominique & Manss, Thomas. Impressionism A&I . Phaidon Press, 1999.
- Thomson, Belinda. Impressionism. Thames & Hudson, 2022.
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