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Henri Matisse’s Pastoral (1905)

A pleasant picnicky scene in which Pan serenades a family.

See Henri Matisse. Pastoral (1905), oil on canvas. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris. The painting was stolen in 2010 and not yet recovered.

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