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Description: | Signed: yes Description: An officer on horseback with two soldiers asks the way from a peasant and his son accompanied by their dog. The man thrusts out his arm with hand holding cap, pointing up a serpentine track which runs through a snow covered coppice of silver birch creating a tracery silhouette of branches against a grey sky with a high thin cloud cover. Technically adept, this anecdotal scene offers an atmospheric and highly accomplished vision of a winter landscape. The subject would appear to be a narrative from the Napoleonic wars; a theme much favoured by this Polish artist. | Subjects: | landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Chelminski, Jan (Polish painter, 1851-1925) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8400... | Go to resource |
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