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Artists Affiliated with Giverny
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Between the late 1880s and World War I, the Norman village of Giverny, France, was the site of a popular international artists' colony. A notable strength of the Terra's collection is art by Americans who were affiliated with Giverny.
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Mary Fairchild MacMonnies (later Low)
Date: 1895
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1987.23
Text Entries: Originally one of a pair of large paintings of mythological female subjects, The Breeze may have been inspired by MacMonnies' neighbor in Giverny, the dancer Isadora Duncan. Mary MacMonnies had only recently embarked on large scale painting with a commission to copy two frescoes by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli housed in the Louvre; the delicate pastel palette and decorative quality of The Breeze reflects this experience as well as the influence of Macmonnies' contemporary, the French painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.