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Soap Bubbles

Gallery 827 · Thomas Couture · ca. 1859 · Met web page

Soap Bubbles, by Thomas Couture, ca. 1859. Oil painting of a schoolboy contemplating bubbles as symbols of transience.

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Soap Bubbles by Thomas Couture

Walk through galleries 811, 824 to reach gallery 827 in the European Paintings section.