Focus on The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre and discuss the abstract.
The Banks of the Bièvre near Bicêtre is an oil-on-canvas painting executed c. 1908–09 by French artist Henri Rousseau. It depicts the working-class community of Bicêtre on the outskirts of southern Paris. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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