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Mar 15 2011

Magdalena Bay, 1840, Francois Biard

French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Magdalena Bay, 1840, Francois Biard

This is a reproduction of “Magdalena Bay” of 1840 by Auguste Francois Biard.  This wonderful depiction of the wild northwest shore of Spitzbergen was painted when the artist was forty-two years old.  He died in 1882 and was a native of Lyon.  He was a prominent abolitionist and traveled throughout the world making sketches from which he later produced wonderful paintings.  Magdalena Bay is known world-wide for its spectacular juxtaposition of the sea, glacial congestion and riotous mountain peaks rising straight out of the sea.  It remains one of the most beautiful and exotic places to visit in the world.  This masterpiece is in the Louvre, Paris.

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