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View of the Entry to Genoa, Seen from below the Terrace of the Palazzo Doria
Jean Honoré Fragonard French
Not on view
Passing through Genoa on their return to France, Fragonard and Saint-Non were struck by the beauty of the city’s gardens. As we often see in his small-scale chalk sketches, the artist distilled the scene into broad areas of light and shadow, suggesting the textures of the sloping stone wall and the foliage draping over the trellis. He included even less detail in the band of silhouetted figures that anchors the lower edge of the sheet.
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