Villiers-le-Bel, France, by Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, 1877

Oil painting landscape of hill with village in distance the suggestion that this is possibly the french village of villiers-le-bel is based on the fact that the artist spent the summer of 1877 in that small paris suburb, studying art at the home and studio of thomas couture. Keywords: long00006373; art; painting; ernest wadsworth longfellow; landscape; oil painting. Depicted Place: Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.