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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This coastal scene is typical of the subject matter that this French Realist artist painted near Boulogne after 1888. Two workers with a horse-drawn cart are compressed into the lower left corner, gathering seaweed on the beach. The dramatic sky and contrasting effects of light are eye-catching. Suffused in the cool translucent grey dusk, orange tints of a fading sunset pierce dark clouds to provide a startling contrast to subdued tones in the lower part of the painting. Cazin includes a reminder of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 by including the fortification which lay off shore, near Samer. | Subjects: | landscape; place (Samer) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Cazin, Jean Charles (French painter, printmaker, and ceramicist, 1841-1901) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8649... | Go to resource |
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