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Painting of a sunset over marshy water with glowing orange clouds and dark silhouetted trees on the horizon.

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This oil painting depicts a sunset over a flat, marshy landscape, with glowing orange and red clouds filling the sky above dark silhouetted trees. Reflective pools of water in the foreground mirror the dusk light. The work is titled Sunset, painted by François-Louis Français in 1878, and is held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Date

1878

Medium

Painting

Museum

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

License

Public domain

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