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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This landscape with four figures dancing among the trees is a variation or a copy of Corot's Dance de Nymphes of 1861 exhibited at the Salon in the same year. There are minor alterations in the depiction of nature and in the clarity of the bodies of the nymphs, who in this picture appear to be almost part of the landscape compared with the 1861 picture, where they clearly stand out. This picture also appears to be smaller in size than the Salon work. The subject matter belongs to a new and mature phase in Corot's art that started in 1850 with Morning, Dance of the Nymphs, exhibited at the Salon in the same year. The details of Dance de Nymphes come from a variety of sources including the circle of nymphs in Giulio Romano's Apollo and the Muses in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence. This work is a good example of Corot's preoccupation in the 1850s and '60s with classical landscapes in a Claudian manner, reminiscent of the fêtes galantes' of Watteau. The softened foliage, the dreamy quality of the nymphs dancing, the tonal quality of light and dark are all elements of music, poetry, nature, and photography that come together to create a picture of pastoral delight . The picture is also inscribed A M Emilie Leleux' who was Louise Emilie Giraud (1824-1885), Mme Leleux, artist and friend of Corot. The Leleux family were close personal friends of Corot and he stayed with them on several occasions at their home in Switzerland. Corot had a friendship with Armand Leleux around the 1850s. He spent much time with his family, frequently staying with them near Geneva. It was through his friendship that he came into contact with the Bovy family and the painter Barthelemy Menn. The Leleux brothers (Armand and Adolphe) were painters, favourite of Napoleon III and his court . | Subjects: | landscape; mythology (nymphs) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille (French painter and draftsman, 1796-1875) Æ Manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8613... | Go to resource |
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