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Fields of dreams.(ARTS & CULTURE: Shopping Smart)
; ...Virgile Diaz de la Peria, Jules Dupre, Charles Emile Jacques, Jean Francois Millet, Theodore Rousseau and Constant Troyon (left, Troyon's Bounding Up the Sheep, circa 1850). How Much: From $20,000 to $30,000 for a very small oil by Dupre or de...
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BOUDIN SHOW SOOTHES LIKE A SEASIDE SUMMER
; ...of paintings by other artists included here: Monet; Constant Troyon and Eugene Isabey, who were early influences on Boudin...Boudin in context, these other works also outclass his. Troyon's silky little "On the Cliff," from the late 1850s...
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Last KIA on the Western Front
; ...facing the 31st Prussian Infantry. Occupying trenches in the Avoncourt and Troyon sectors of the Meuse-Argonne, "Baltimore's Own" had been engaged in almost constant combat for two months when the armistice neared. Yet Brig. Gen. William Nicholson...
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Seaside views: From gloom to a merry whiff in the air
; ...little-known gems.''The Coast near Villers,'' from the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, done a few years later by Constant Troyon displays a kinship in the mood, despite stylistic differences. The sea, which is gray-green in the distance and becomes...
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Ode to Joy
; ...of fight and color, he was schooled as a realist under the tutelage of luminaries including Camille Pissarro and Constant Troyon. "Monet came on the scene in the 1860s as an artist painting the coast," Lemonedes says. "He had this amazing ability...
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Boston art events run the gamut
; ...000) by the Belgian artist Gerard Portielje (1856- 1929) and "Ewe and Lamb" ($18,000-$22,000) by the French artist Constant Troyon (1810-65). Headlining the modern art is a 40-by-70-inch oil "Cosmic" ($15,000-$25,000) by the American artist Karl...
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Naive impressions from nature: Millet's readings, from Montaigne to Charlotte Bronte.(Jean-Francois Millet; Michel de Montaigne)
; ...in Barbizon naturalism, a vague if useful term for those like Camille Corot, Narcisse Diaz, Theodore Rousseau, and Constant Troyon, who frequented Barbizon and the adjacent Forest of Fontainebleau in search of motifs. Of course, every premodern...
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A Gift Largely Left In the Closet; W.A. Clark Was Generous. What He Knew About Art Is Finally Out in the Open.
; ...enjoyable pictures here tend to be small ones by lesser-knowns like Charles-Francois Daubigny, Theodore Rousseau, Constant Troyon and Lawrence Alma-Tadema in the closing rooms of the show. With them are also some fine little works by 19th-century...
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Show me the Monet ; The Royal Academy's latest exhibition promises new insights into the Impressionist, but the 'unknown' work turns out to be insignificant sketches and juvenilia
; ...painters whom he encountered, their working methods, their constant admonitions that he should draw as an intellectual discipline...Dutchman responsible for "the definitive education of my eye"; Troyon and Gleyre, rather less familiar, gave him their counsel too...
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Anniversaries
; ...Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, playwright and author, 1749; Antoine-Augustin Cournot, mathematician and economist, 1801; Constant Troyon, painter, 1810; Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, novelist, 1814; Thomas Seddon, landscape painter, 1821; Walter Cecil Macfarren...
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