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Curatorial Narrative Carl Ludwig Hackert's "Paysage avec une rivire" occupies a unique position within the trajectory of early 20th-century landscape painting, its creation spanning the tumultuous years between 1915 and 1945. During this period, Hackert's technique underwent a significant transformation, as he began to eschew the more rigid, academic approaches of his earlier work in favor of a softer, more expressive brushwork. This shift is particularly evident in "Paysage avec une rivire", where the gentle, feathery strokes imbue the canvas with a sense of atmospheric weight, evoking the misty, ephemeral quality of the natural world. The palette, too, is characterized by a restraint and subtlety, as Hackert restricts himself to a range of blues, greens, and earth tones that seem to vibrate in harmony with one another.When enlarged to a scale of 59x44, "Paysage avec une rivire" assumes a profound spatial presence, its compositiona