Arques-la-Bataille

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Arques-la-Bataille, ca. 1884. Oil on canvas.

Oil on canvas · 18 1/4 x 25 7/8in. (46.4 x 65.7cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Impressionism

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Museum title: Arques-la-Bataille
Artist: John Henry Twachtman (American, Cincinnati, Ohio 1853–1902 Gloucester, Massachusetts)
Date: ca. 1884
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18 1/4 x 25 7/8in. (46.4 x 65.7cm)
Credit line: Purchase, The Charles Engelhard Foundation Gift, 1991
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1853–1902

Impressionism c. 1860–1900

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.