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Soap Bubbles

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Soap Bubbles

ca. 1859

Medium

Oil on canvas

Tags

Bubbles Books Boys Portraits

Dimensions

51 1/2 x 38 5/8 in. (130.8 x 98.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Thomas Couture

1815–1879 • France

Often remembered for "The Romans of the Decadence," the sensation of the 1847 Salon that is now often cited as a classic example of bombastic academic painting. His informal works are more lively and he encouraged his students to directly study from landscape. Comment on works: mythology, history

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