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This is true. The Ukiyo-e was a type of art creating that came form Japan and that impressionists were known for incorporating. The idea was called Japonism and was common in France who studied the Japanese arts extensively and found a way to incorporate their ideas in their art.
Magdalene with the Smoking Flame. It is a c. 1640 oil-on-canvas depiction of Mary Magdalene by French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour. Two versions of this painting exist, one in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the other in the Louvre Museum.
