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Cathedral at le Puy
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About this work
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame at le Puy was built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and was a major pilgrimage site in the late 1500s. James Carroll Beckwith and his wife made their own “pilgrimage” to France in 1911, with stops in Avignon, Nîmes, and le Puy. (Franchi and Weber, Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith (1852-1917), 1999) He painted this scene on the spot one July afternoon and captured the fleeting summer light as it pierced the gray clouds and made the medieval rooftops glisten.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
- Institution
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Catalogue identifier
- ld1-1643381040022-1643381041317-0
- Arkivism identifier
- saam-ld1-1643381040022-1643381041317-0
- Date
- 1911
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Image dimensions
- 381 × 512 px
Credit lineCathedral at le Puy. 1911. Carroll Beckwith, born Hannibal, MO 1852-died New York City 1917. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution. CC0.
