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Monet also shared his Japanese predecessors' fascination with nature and informal scenes of everyday life: compare Monet's two girls at the beach in Les Cousines (1870), downstairs at the Marmottan, to Utagawa Toyokuni's Three Women on a Boat Lamparo Fishing (before 1825), upstairs. Monet's snowscapes, like those he did of Argenteuil, are indirect descendants of the snowy fields and mountains of Hiroshige and Hokusai. The unconventional, asymmetric "snapshot" composition favored by ukiyo-e artists became a hallmark of Impressionism: a good example is the Marmottan's La Barque (1887), in which Monet places the barque, or boat...
...group of primitives, some very fine examples by Harunobu, and is unusually strong in actor prints by such masters as Shunsho, Buncho, and Shungei. There are also about a dozen portraits by Shiriau, as well as a large group of Surimono, (small prints for special occasions) by Hokusai, Hiroshige, Toyokuni, Utamaro, and others...
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