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Interior of a Tropical Forest
Céleste Bonheur · 1909
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 200 × 162 cm
Bonheur never visited the tropics. She made this painting from botanical illustrations, taxidermy specimens at the Paris natural history museum, and an extraordinary act of imagination. The result is more vivid than documentation — a jungle as the mind would wish it to be.
Rights & provenance
- Rights basis
- human original
- Copyright
- Céleste Bonheur
- Licence
- all rights reserved
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