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Madame Moitessier by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/32696-madame-moitessier

When his friend Marcotte first suggested that Ingres paint Ines Moitessier, the wife of a financier and jurist, he demurred. Ingres changed his mind after being struck by her „terrible et belle tête“ (terrible and beautiful head.) The author Théophile Gautier described her as „Junolike,“ and Ingres presents her with the imposing remoteness of a Roman goddess.
Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of Allied Merchant Seamen, The Art Gallery of Toronto

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A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) by Thomas Cole

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/50727-view-mountain-pass-called-notch-white-mountains-crawford-notch

Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole’s painting depicts the site of an earlier landslide whose destruction prompted the victims—Mr.
Newark, London, and Toronto, 1988: 219, 133, 144, repro. 220, as A View of the Mountain

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