Le Baou

Artist William James Glackens (American, 1870 - 1938)

Date1925

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions15 1/8 x 18 1/8 in. (38.4 x 46.1 cm)

ClassificationsOil Painting

Credit LineHarriet Russell Stanley Fund

Terms

Object number1944.13

DescriptionThe Glackens family rented a villa in the south of France in 1925 that Glackens’s son Ira described as “a Victorian edifice with a cupola overlooking the whole town and the Mediterranean beyond. Behind it loomed the Baou des Blancs, a curious domed mountain with ruins of a castle of the Knights Templars.” The site proved inspirational and this colorful landscape is as joyous as any of the artists’ late works

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