Facing north this time, we present a 12x12 oil on canvas view of Hamilton Avenue under the Gowanus Expressway.
One final anecdote from the Corot catalog: Corot painted several pictures of women reading. "According to Theophile Silvestre, a contemporary of Corot, the artist hardly ever read, but he bought books along the quays, 'exclusively for their shapes and colors,' in order to put them into the hands of his models."
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