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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Two peasant women lie in the shaded foreground of a Normandy landscape. One wears a red shirt, blue jacket and white blouse with red neckerchief and yellow bonnet. The other wears a blue skirt, white shirt and red bonnet. They lie under the shade of a large, leafy tree. They seem to be eating and have clearly been working in the distant fields as there is a sickle on the ground in front of them. In the middle distance, two men stack hay, further into the distance, a man and a woman work in the field. Behind them, a row of poplars. There seems to be a fire near the trees in the middle distance. In the foreground, a track runs left to right/back to front of picture plane. Gibot uses some impasto effects in this work. The deep recession of the painting which shows no signs of town life and the high horizon with trees rising up to block out the sky give an impression of deep countryside reminiscent of the French Barbizon painters. However, this is not a wild landscape but a cultivated one showing the relationship between the land and those who work it. | Subjects: | landscape (wooded); place (Normandy) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: E. Gibot (possibly Cibot, François Barthélemy Michel Edouard, French painter, 1799-1877) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8459... | Go to resource |
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