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Cliffs at Ouessant, Brittany

(French, 1856–1913)
1901
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions65.1 x 81 cm (25 5/8 x 31 7/8 in.)
Credit LineThe John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman
Accession number19.1315
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
InscriptionsLower left: Henry Moret 1901
Provenance1901, from the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York; 1905, sold by Durand-Ruel to Walter Kimball, Boston; 1905, from Kimball to John Pickering Lyman (b. 1847 – d. 1914), Portsmouth, NH; by descent to his sister, Theodora Lyman (b. 1852 – d. 1942), Portsmouth; 1919, gift of Theodora Lyman to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 18, 1919)
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