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Boulevard de l'Impératrice (N. Africa)

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Landscape: Dunes
A landscape is portrayed with shrubbery at the forefront and buildings on the horizon.
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Ko-kiyomizu ware flower vase with painted design of plum and bamboo

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Fairmount Park, Philadelphia

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Heidelberg Castle

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Winchester Cathedral Castle Ruins

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Gateway - Paris

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Firenze - Palazzo Pitti, La Fontana

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Chiesa di S. Maria della Salute

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The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Kichizo Edition): #39 Okazaki, Yahagi Bridge over the Toyokawa River
The print depicts an arch bridge over water, with travelers walking across the bridge. Several boats are sailing on the water, while two fishermen are standing on the shallow area by the waterbank.
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Landscape

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Landscape
A stream with trees on either side. Rocks in and around the stream and a fence in the grass on the left side of the image.
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Plane Trees, Riva-sul-Garda

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Pitti Palace

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Milano, Corso Vittorio Emanulele
Photographed from the upper stories of a building and looking down, this image depicts a street scene in the Italian city of Milan; the city’s cathedral visible in the distance.
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Oaks in Birklands, Sherwood
This photograph depicts a clearing in a forest with two old oak trees in the foreground, a bed of ferns around their bases.  
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Peterhof Palace
Photograph of Peterhof Palace and the Grand Cascade from an oblique view.
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Edge of the Woods

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Country Road and Carriage

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Berne, Fontaine de Cours

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Acquedotto con Ponticello, Rome

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Falls of the Hudson

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Poplars, Royal Gardens
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View of Venice

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Le Supplicié Mamija Hasimé

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Scholar Strolling in the Mountains
<p>&quot;This&nbsp;landscape&nbsp;is&nbsp;characteristic&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Unkoku school&nbsp;in&nbsp;its&nbsp;sharp&nbsp;tonal&nbsp;contrasts&nbsp;and&nbsp;dramatic composition. The&nbsp;right&nbsp;side&nbsp;is&nbsp;dominated&nbsp;by&nbsp;a&nbsp;jutting&nbsp;sheer&nbsp;cliff&nbsp;face whose magnitude&nbsp;is&nbsp;suggested&nbsp;by&nbsp;the&nbsp;tall&nbsp;trees&nbsp;emerging&nbsp;from&nbsp;its side.&nbsp;In&nbsp;the&nbsp;far&nbsp;distance&nbsp;are&nbsp;other&nbsp;rugged&nbsp;peaks&nbsp;that&nbsp;tower over&nbsp;unseen&nbsp;valleys.&nbsp;In&nbsp;the&nbsp;foreground&nbsp;stands&nbsp;a&nbsp;scholar with a&nbsp;staff&nbsp;viewing&nbsp;the&nbsp;spectacle&nbsp;before&nbsp;him.&nbsp;His&nbsp;young attendant holds&nbsp;the&nbsp;scholar&#39;s&nbsp;favorite&nbsp;instrument, the&nbsp;Chinese&nbsp;<em>ch&#39;in</em>. In the&nbsp;middleground&nbsp;a&nbsp;small&nbsp;open&nbsp;air&nbsp;pavilion&nbsp;under&nbsp;two&nbsp;pine trees&nbsp;punctuates&nbsp;a&nbsp;flat&nbsp;stretch&nbsp;of&nbsp;peninsula,&nbsp;and&nbsp;beyond,
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Castle Heidelberg

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Rilato Bridge, Venice
This photograph depicts a view of a marble covered bridge spanning the width of a city canal.  Along the embankments are a series of gondolas and a few seated men.
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Tower Falls

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Tétouan (Morocco)

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Rodez Cathedral

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Nevers

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Temple in Wintry Mountains

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Caribbean Port

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Point Judith Light

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Landscape
This painting depicts a lush green countryside with an expanse of blue sky. It shows a hillside overlooking a small lake. There is a vista of fields and hills that extends beyond the lake to the horizon.<br /> In the foreground, a woman wearing a long dress and a bonnet and carrying a walking stick and basket, walks toward the viewer along a dirt path. The path runs from a building on the far left toward the bottom of the painting. The vegetation is painted in sharp detail in dark tones of green and brown.<br /> In the right half of the composition, there is a scene of a distant village and farms viewed through the trees on the edge of the hillside. In contrast to the shadowy wooded area, the view is bathed in bright sunlight. There is a lone bird in flight in the light blue sky that fills the top half of the painting.
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Bordeaux, Vue de Cenon

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Venetian Building (recto); Naples Waterfront (verso)

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View of the Generalite, Granada

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Marine
Man with medium long hair and a mustache. He is looking forward and has a long white collar at his neck.;
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Cathedral, Florence

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Comparisons between Mountains and Seas: Mt. Rokuso in Kazusa Province, Kazusa Kanozan
The dark color pallette and black strip across the top indicate that the image is set at night. A mountain with pine trees and steps leading to the top loom over the image. The sea appears behind the mountain in the distance.
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Luxembourg Gardens
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.
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Le Givre a Veneux
A country scene with swirls of color all around. There are two distant reddish-colored buildings ibehind a fence that runs along the left side of the dirt path, which recedes to a vanishing point at the center of the work. Trees line the right-hand side of the dirth path. Two people in the lower right corner appear to be working; one stands straight, while the other bends over.
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Fish Market, Honfleur (Marché aux poissons)
A group of figures stand in a market place flanked by brown and tan buildings under a freely-painted sky. Most of these figures are women in the high linen headdresses characteristic of the region. At center is a woman with a red jacket.
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L'Englise d'Aulnay-sous-Bois
A winter scene with a steepled church in the center surrounded by other buildings, including a three-story building on the right hand side. A bird perches on top of the steeple. Snow covers the ground and the trees in front of the church are bare. Pinks, whites, browns and blues dominate the palette.
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Paysage d'Eure et Loir
A street scene with a darkened sky and long buildings. There is snow and dust on the roads, telephone poles leading into the far distance and a low horizon line.
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Constantinople from Mount Boulgourlou

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Intérieur de la mosquée Amrou
Photograph of the columns in the interior of a mosque.
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Roofless House after the Lucknow Mutiny
This photograph depicts a view of a devastated palatial building. Before its shattered portico is a pile of rubble and fragments of columns. Four men in turbans are seated on the ground before the building. 
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Biskra
Three men praying towards an orange and grey storm, two camels on left hand side. One man is standing, others are kneeling.
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Jaffa, la passe—The channel at Jaffa
View of a wharf from across a channel. Ships and small boats populate the middle ground, while a city rises behind. The foreground is mainly seawater.
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La Pointe du Sérai
View down onto a busy seaport populated by numerous steamships and smaller watercraft. A sliver of land with various towers and domed structures stretches across the horizon line in the distance. 
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Polish Market

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Yosemite Valley, Looking West
Landscape painting, despicts a valley surrounded by steeply inclined mountains. The foreground is occupied by trees, cows, and still water. Light emanates from lower-right end of the valley, illuminating the left-most rock face. (Larson 2/5/18)
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Bord de Riviere
In this painting, a river stretches from the lower left corner to the middle of the composition. One small rowboat is seen in the middle of the river. Trees line both sides of the composition, receding backwards, and people walk on a path to the right of the river. A city is seen in the distance, and a cloudy blue sky dominates the upper portion of the canvas and is reflected in the river.
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University of Michigan

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Paris, Avenue Foch
A vibrant colored street scene with a mansard-roofed building in the background next to a dome-topped building. In the foreground there are two women in a white horse-drawn cart with a driver. There are people on the street, and trees frame the image on the left and right.
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St. Peter's and the Vatican on the Feast of Corpus Christi
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Jamaica Bay
Horizontal landscape of a misty harbor view with several small boats in distance near center
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Venice - Church of the Gesuati on the Zattere

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Landscape at Palo

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Pont de l'Estacade
This painting shows a view of the Seine river in Paris, including the wooden bridge, the Pont de l'Estacade. The foreground is filled is small boats and a dock winch, while the in the distance the bridge and buildings of Paris glow in late afternoon light.
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The Dead Sea, from Masada

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The Break-up of the Ice (La Débâcle or Les Glaçons)
A sweeping winter river scene opens up from the foreground and sweeps away towards the left. Ice floes dot the river surface and snowy hills frame trees that stand along the riverbank in the middle distance. The palette of this painting is restricted to mauves, blues, greens, and whites.
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View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Horizontal view of harbor scene with water, dock, and boats. Small figures and trees on pier in middle ground. WMC painted in green in lower right corner.
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Le Port de le Havre (Le Havre, un Bassin)
Boats are docked at a seaport under an expanse of cloudy, overcast sky. The horizon line is low, and all the vessels are sailboats, with the exception of one dingy on the left hand side. The color palette is dominated by greys, blues, blacks, browns and whites.
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Crossing the Great Salt Lake

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The Lincoln Memorial

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Landscape with Tower

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Fantastic Rock and Lighthouse

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Glen Lyon Falls
A waterfall takes up the bottom half of the image with trees and hills behind a body of water.&nbsp;
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Versaille DePuis Le Parterre Du Midi
A view of a waterfront building with rising hills in the background.&nbsp;
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Untitled

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The Departure

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Plaster Works, Los Angeles
A photograph of an oblique view of a plaster mill in Los Angeles, California. 
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Sea and Rain
The painting depicts a solitary male figure standing along the shore. The thin layers of paint evoke a misty, overcast day with the figure standing perhaps on a tidal flat.
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Solar Effect in the Clouds--Ocean
Seascape depicting a cloud-filled sky over the ocean with sunlight reflecting on the rippling water.
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Sur le Flat-Iron
Ink and gouache drawing in black, gray and white on tan paper with tall vertical structure at center of composition rendered in a series of quick vertical and diagonal lines.
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Chasing a Slaver
Ship chasing another ship. Shore on the right hand side of the painting.
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Sailing Boats in Harbor

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The Star
A sailboat with its sails set aloft in the shape of two triangles is silhouetted against a cloudy sky illuminated by the sun. Reflections of the boat and sun reach into the foreground of the image toward the viewer. 
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Kelp Gatherers

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Tropical Ocean

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The City of Ambition
Photograph of the Singer Building in New York, located at Broadway and Liberty. Open to the public in 1908, it was the tallest building in America for one year. In 1968 it was the world's largest skyscaper to be demolished.
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The Steerage
A view of steerage passengers gathered on two decks of a steamship.&nbsp;
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The Bridge
View of the Brooklyn Bridge stretching across the East River at twilight with city buildings in the foreground. 
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The Holland House
A photograph of the Holland House in New York City. Below the building is a wintery street; silhouetted pedestrians and carriages travel in front of the large hotel.
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Emigrants

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Le premier homme tué que j’ai (The First Killed I Saw)

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Entre les deux mon coeur balance

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Paysage à Auvers

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No. 247

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Copyright
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The Departure

Accession Number
2004/2.151

Title
The Departure

Artist(s)
James Jacques Joseph Tissot

Artist Nationality
French (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
1880

Medium & Support
etching and drypoint on paper

Dimensions
12 5/16 in. x 14 3/4 in. ( 31.2 cm x 37.5 cm )

Credit Line
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Aldrich

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Western

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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Associated Artists
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