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    • A Bird's-Eye View, 1889
    Theodore Robinson (American, 1852–1896)
    Oil on canvas

    25 3/4 x 32 in. (65.4 x 81.3 cm)
    Gift of George A. Hearn, 1910 (10.64.9)

    Robinson first visited Giverny, the subject of this picture, in 1887. He befriended Claude Monet and subsequently painted under the influence of his Impressionist style. Robinson's painted surfaces are more varied than those of Monet, but still betray many of the coloristic and compositional aspects of French Impressionism.

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  • "A Bicentennial Treasury: American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 33, no. 4 (Winter, 1975–76).
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  • A Bird's-Eye View, 1889
    Theodore Robinson (American, 1852–1896)
    Oil on canvas

    25 3/4 x 32 in. (65.4 x 81.3 cm)
    Gift of George A. Hearn, 1910 (10.64.9)