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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Stanislas Lépine's subjects can be divided into three essential categories: views of the Normandy coast, particularly the ports of his native Caen and Rouen; urban views of Paris, especially the quays and the streets around Montmartre where he lived; and landscapes around Paris, particularly the river Seine and its tributary the Marne. The Southampton painting belongs to this second category; the view is taken from a field on the hill above Montmartre in which several goats pasture accompanied by a boy. A hedge of low trees divides this rural foreground scene from the grey expanse of the city with its domes and churches laid out in the background; to the right the recently erected Eiffel Tower is clearly visible piercing the pale sky line. Lépine adopts a technique reminiscent of his master Corot's late stye for the foreground, while his delicate, atmospheric touch for the representation of the city recalls the style of Corot's early views of Rome. The painting was almost certainly executed on the spot, as advocated by his master. A second painting by Lépine, also dated 1892, with a very similar composition, was with the dealer Arthur Tooth in 1955. | Subjects: | France) townscape; place (Montmartre Paris | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Lépine, Stanislas (French painter, 1835-1892) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8402... | Go to resource |
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