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Description: | Signed: yes Description: In contrast to Matthijs Maris's fantasy landscapes, this early, Parisian work depicts an actual, but probably not entirely topographically accurately rendered, scene: Montmartre in Paris. In the foreground are a couple of white goats, in the centre a few barns and on top of the hill two windmills. This strict division of the painting's composition into three horizontal sections, in which the central section serves to isolate the foreground and set the background at a greater distance, is one of the main characteristics of all of Maris's town- and landscapes. The National Gallery in London holds an earlier, smaller version of Montmartre, in which the foreground is occupied by two horse and carriages. | Subjects: | landscape; place (Montmartre Paris); animal (goats) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Maris, Matthijs (Dutch painter, 1839-1917) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8756... | Go to resource |
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