DETAILS
- Artist
- François-Louis Français
- Date
- 1863
- Location
- Musée d'Orsay
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THE ARTIST
François-Louis Français
19th-century French landscape painter who bridged Barbizon naturalism and Impressionist light.
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Mount Madison from the Androscoggin River
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