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Peasant Hanging the Washing by Morisot
An 1881 oil on canvas painting, Peasant Hanging the Washing, by Berthe Morisot (1841-95), the French impressionist painter. Depicting a scene from the banlieues of Paris where new housing was recently built for poorer families so that they had a small garden to grow vegetables. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)
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