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Idyll

Jean-Jacques Henner
1872
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The story

Henner showed Idyll, also called The Fountain, at the Salon of 1872, and the French state bought it from him the same year. It then traveled to the 1873 World's Fair in Vienna before hanging in the Musée du Luxembourg and later the Louvre.

Source, French Ministry of Culture

Object details

Title
Idyll
Artist
Jean-Jacques Henner
Date
1872
Culture
Not recorded
Medium
Oil on canvas
Object type
Paintings
Collection
Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF 95)
Credit line
Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number
EFA.0802
Original image
2040 × 2564 px
Source record
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License evidence
See the license

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