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In 1872, Camille Pissarro rendered the water of the Oise River rushing over a low dam with rapid, broken brushstrokes of pure color. Canal barges are moored to the opposite bank, their masts mirroring the young trees that line the bank and lead to the riparian village of Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône in the background. Here the artist depicts aspects of dail...
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... were submerged and quiet armlet sections of the river were broadened such that there were "no more pretty nooks, no more rippling alleys to get lost in; a disaster that inclined one to strangle all the river engineers!" 3 Impressionist painters were also drawn to these feats of engineering and the changed environment around them. Gustave Caillebotte included one such dam, at Bezons, in a view of fishing on the Seine in 1888 ( Figure 2). The turbulent, white-foamy water of the dam is visible in the background on the upper right, while fishermen in their boats, lashed to anchoring poles, bob in the foreground. ...
