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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The Russell-Cotes painting Yatch sur la Riviere by Stanislas Lepine probably dates to about 1872-76 as comparison with the National Gallery of Art, Washington's similarly dated View on the Outskirts of Caen suggests. In both paintings Lepine's broad stroked treatment of the subject, particularly the foliage, is similarly constructed, following an essentially tonal view of landscape painting based on the technique of his master Corot. The soft tones of his palette and his interest in atmospheric changes reveal Lepine as a precursor of the Impressionists; the Impressionists invited him to participate in their exhibition of 1874. While the exact location represented in the Russell-Cotes painting remains uncertain, Lepine'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, notably the quais and the streets around Montmatre where he lived; and landscapes around Paris, particularly the river Seine and its tributary the Marne. The Russell-Cotes painting clearly fits into this latter group. Lepine's Yatch sur la Riviere has a striking, bold composition. The view appears to have been taken from the river itself which fills the full width of the painting's foreground and plunges in steep perspective into the distance. To the left the scene is enclosed by tall poplars and to the right by hills in which nestle a village and its church with a tall spire. The treatment of the sky is influenced by Johan Barthold Jongkind and echoes the sense of great spatial depth created by the river in which it is beautifully reflected along side the trees bordering the riverbanks. | Subjects: | landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Lépine, Stanislas (French painter, 1835-1892) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8468... | Go to resource |
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