La Marcellerie Gaines Ruger Donoho (American, 1857-1916). La Marcellerie, 1881. Oil on canvas, frame: 58 1/8 x 83 11/16 x 3 1/4 in. ( x x cm). Gaines Ruger Donoho mastered sketching en plein air (outdoors) in the picturesque outskirts of Paris. Grez-sur-Loing, seen here, was a popular destination for artists and musicians. Donoho focuses on an enclosed corner of a meadow, bordered at its far side by a backlit screen of trees. A single figure holding a scythe blends into the painting’s green tonalities and broad brushwork. France greatly expanded its railway system in the second
La Marcellerie Gaines Ruger Donoho (American, 1857-1916). La Marcellerie, 1881. Oil on canvas, frame: 58 1/8 x 83 11/16 x 3 1/4 in. ( x x cm). Gaines Ruger Donoho mastered sketching en plein air (outdoors) in the picturesque outskirts of Paris. Grez-sur-Loing, seen here, was a popular destination for artists and musicians. Donoho focuses on an enclosed corner of a meadow, bordered at its far side by a backlit screen of trees. A single figure holding a scythe blends into the painting’s green tonalities and broad brushwork. France greatly expanded its railway system in the second half of the nineteenth century, making towns such as Grez-sur-Loing accessible to artists in search of bucolic subject matter. American Art 1881
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