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- Hippolyte Bellangé (1800 - 1866)
- fCrossing the Ford
- France
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- Date: c. 1837
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 53.5 x 64.3 cm
- Object size: 84 x 95 x 12 cm
- Inv: P581
- Location: West Gallery III
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- Probably exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1837. The soldiers are grenadiers de la ligne and the woman is identifiable by her pans and water barrel as a cantinière (canteen woman). The composition recalls seventeenth-century Dutch scenes of people and animals crossing rivers.