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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The French landscape painter Henri Harpignies was a leading Barbizon painter and a close firned of Corot. Their naturalistic approach to landscape and adopting of open air as opposed a studio painting was a key influence on the Impressionists. In this nicely balanced composition, in which the rutted country road in framed by the walls, tree and repeated traingular shapes of the cottage roofs, a fully loaded farm cart, pulled by four oxen, approaches. However, the artist seems more interested in the landscape and sky than in the figures. Harpignies first exhibited in the Salon in 1853 and received his first medal in 1886 for Le Soir dans la campagne de Rome, which was acquired for the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. | Subjects: | figure; animal (oxen); landscape; | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Harpignies, Henri-Joseph (French painter and printmaker, 1819-1916) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8436... | Go to resource |
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