woman wearing brown skirt, checked apron, blue blouse and white bonnet, rushing after three cows walking down a path with puddles in the rain; ducks, LRC; stone buildings, URC; water in background with two sailboats

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The Downpour, from The Enchanted Hours, 1901

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Describing the site where he built his summer home in Brittany, France, Henri Rivière wrote about a seaside cliff covered with pines and heather. One could imagine this print following from his dreamy prose. “You could believe yourself at the end of the world there, in the still virgin countryside,” he wrote, “where the noise of the winds and the sea, the cries of the birds … were the only sounds which enlivened the harmonious landscape which changed in itself and its color according to the effects and the hours.”

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Title
The Downpour, from The Enchanted Hours
Artist Life
1864–1951
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2013.35.705
Provenance
[Richard Reed Armstrong Fine Art, Chicago, until 2006; sold in April for PAOO, to Drake]; Harry Drake, St. Paul (2006-d. 2012; bequeathed to MIA)
Catalogue Raisonne
Fields p. 77
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woman wearing brown skirt, checked apron, blue blouse and white bonnet, rushing after three cows walking down a path with puddles in the rain; ducks, LRC; stone buildings, URC; water in background with two sailboats

© Estate of Henri Rivière / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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