Luxembourg Gardens / Maurice Brazil Prendergast
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1999/2.3
- Title
- Luxembourg Gardens
- Artist
- Maurice Brazil Prendergast
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1858 - 1924
- Medium and Support
- oil on panel
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1907
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles H. and Katharine C. Sawyer
- Style/Group/Movement
- Post-impressionism
- Inscription
- Signed l.r.: Prendergast
- Dimensions
- 35.56 cm x 42.55 cm (14 in. x 16 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- Outdoor scene of a park setting with small figures and an urn atop a stone column-like form in the left foreground rendered in bold, flat, horizontal patches of color in browns, greens and whites.
- Subject Matter
- View of the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris executed in bold, horizontal brushstrokes. Prendergast’s true subject was color, rapidly painted in distinct patches and rhythmically arranged on the canvas to give surface pattern to the composition with little attempt at illusionistic space.
- Primary Keywords
- formal gardens
- luxembourg (general region)
- luxembourg gardens
- parks (grounds)
- parks (recreation areas)
- post-impressionist
- state parks
- statue
- vessels
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- europe
- europe (continent)
- european
- european styles and periods
- france
- gardens
- gardens by form
- geographic and political locations
- grounds
- locality
- modern european fine arts styles and movements
- modern european styles and movements
- objects
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by form
- open spaces by function
- open spaces by location or context
- paris
- parks by ownership or administration
- people and culture
- statues
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1204 x 978
- File Size
- 173 KB
- Record
- 1999/2.3
- Link to this Item
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"Luxembourg Gardens; Maurice Brazil Prendergast." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1999-sl-2.3/1999_2.3.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 05, 2024.