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41 Items in this Learning Collection
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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Jamaica Bay
Horizontal landscape of a misty harbor view with several small boats in distance near center
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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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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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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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Boulevard de l'Impératrice (N. Africa)

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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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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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Tropical Ocean

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Chasing a Slaver
Ship chasing another ship. Shore on the right hand side of the painting.
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The Lincoln Memorial

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Statue of Liberty, New York

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The Steerage
A view of steerage passengers gathered on two decks of a steamship. 
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Perils of the Sea ('Peril on the Sea')

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Figure of a Girl in Blue (portrait of Miss Minnie Clark)
Portrait of a woman with dark hair and fair skin seated in a chair wearing a blue dress amid a sparse background of blues, greens, and browns; her body is positioned at an angle towards the right, while she looks directly out at the viewer.
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The Maid of Finistère

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Oka and Walmacho
In this painting, done in broad brush strokes, the figures of two women fill the composition. The woman on the right is seated in profile and the other, standing behind her, gazes out into the distance. They both wear shawls which make their bodies monolithic forms. A strong outline appears, especially around their heads, because they are set againist a plain white wall. There is also a strong color contrast between the dark black shawl worn by the standing woman and light pink shawl of the seated one. An amulet made of bone and feathers hangs on the wall in the upper right corner of the painting.
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F. Holland Day in Algerian Costume
Photograph of F. Holland Day in an "Algerian costume." Day sits cross-legged and looks down on his clasped hands resting in his lap.
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Seven Kiowah Men

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Model for cavalry soldier
Plaster sculpture of a man dressed in a Civil War military uniform; arms are broken off at mid-bicep. <br />
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Engineering Corps
A group of soldiers stand and sit in a landscape; some face the camera while others are posed engaged in conversation. Behind them stand several tall trees and between them a tent with the flaps decorated with an American flag. Seated alone to the left is a young African-American man holding a broom.
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Soldier

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Guerre Civile
A man laying on his back dominates this landscape-oriented black-and-white lithograph. He is fully dressed. Positioned diagonally across the foreground and depicted using dramatic foreshortening, his face is near the viewer (a mustache is visible, and he wears a hat reminiscent of a kepi, or military hat), while his stiff upturned feet lead the eye towards the ramshackle wall of paving stones that cuts horizontally across the top third of the composition. A pair of feet peeking out of striped trousers jut into the lower right foreground, while stones and possibly a wheel fill the left foreground. Hazy fences and buildings rise in the background empty stretches of street.<br /><br /> The work is signed on the stone (on one of the piled-up paving stones) in the front left foreground: “Manet / 1871”.<br /><br /> Title printed in typeface below the image: "GUERRE CIVILE"
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A vingt ans

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La glace à main

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Votes for Women
In this drawing, four women walkshoulder to shoulder toward the left. They are wearing long skirts of the early twentieth century and sashes, and they are carrying pendants over their right shoulders and small pieces of paper in their left.
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Business-Men's Class
In an interior space, a large group of men stand with their right arms out and their left elbows bent with their hands on their hips. They are all facing a man whose back is to the viewer. He is also holding his right arm out.
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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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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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Deer in the Woods
A deer stands in front of a tree, with tail towards the viewer. There is a creek that runs along the left side of the image. It is a heavily wooded area with stones in the creek and brighter green grass on the right side.
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Sunset
Landscape scene depicting trees silhouetted against a reddening sky with a dead fallen tree trunk lying diagonally across the foreground.
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Spring Landscape
Landscape painting depicting a dirt pathway with steps and a wooden railing cutting through the center of the composition leading to a house on a hill in the distance. On either side of the path are blooming trees bearing pink and white blossoms in a green meadow.
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Landscape at Palo

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The Dead Sea, from Masada

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Alpine View, Glacier (Savoie)
Photograph of a glacier in the Alps near Savoie, viewed from a village at the base of the mountains.
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Canyon de Chelly
A team of seven people on horses and a dog cross the desert. They appear small compared to the vast rocky landforms behind them.
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No. 247

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University of Michigan

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St. Michael Vanquishing Satan

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The First Mirror (Looking into the Hand Mirror)

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Alpine View, Glacier (Savoie)

Accession Number
1989/1.63

Title
Alpine View, Glacier (Savoie)

Artist(s)
Bisson Fréres

Artist Nationality
French (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
circa 1860

Medium & Support
albumen print on paper

Dimensions
13 7/16 in x 17 13/16 in (34.13 cm x 45.24 cm);22 3/16 in x 28 3/16 in (56.36 cm x 71.6 cm);19 1/4 in x 23 3/4 in (48.89 cm x 60.33 cm)

Credit Line
Museum Purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art

Subject matter
Probably taken in 1860 when the brothers Bisson accompanied Napoleon III and the Empress to Chamonix to celebrate the reunion of Savoy with France, this photograph depicts a glacier in the Alps seen from a village at the base of the mountain range. The imposing forms of the mountains dominate the image, dramatically bisecting the composition from the lower left to upper right corner and dwarfing the tiny village houses situated at their base. While the majority of the Bisson Frères' photographs of the Alps depict the ascent of Mont Blanc or the Valley of Chamonix from the mountains, this view was taken from within a village, as evidenced by the roof of a house that appears in the lower right corner of the image.

Physical Description
Photograph of a glacier in the Alps near Savoie, viewed from a village at the base of the mountains.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
Cityscapes
Landscapes
glaciers (bodies of water)
house
mountain climbing
mountains
snow
snow (precipitation)
travel photography
villages

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