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Childe Hassam (1859–1935)

Grand Prix Day, 1887

Oil on canvas; 24 1/8 x 31 in. (61.3 x 78.7 cm)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
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Hassam depicted the fashionable noonday parade of elaborate equipages near the Arc de Triomphe on the first Sunday in June, before their procession to the Bois de Boulogne for the great international horse race. Brilliant light bathes the spectacle of two lines of carriages filled with well-dressed ladies and gentlemen. Spectators crowd the sidewalks shaded by sun-dappled horse-chestnut trees. Hassam made a second, larger version of the scene (1887–88; New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut) for submission to the 1888 Salon.
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