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Description: | Because of its rather naïve style, this painting is difficult to place in a particular time frame, but it may possibly date from the first part of the nineteenth century. The medieval castle in the background may indicate the artist's interest for France's past. All things medieval were particularly in fashion during the Restoration, when the French kings tried to revive monarchic ideas by highlighting glorious episodes from the ancien régime. This was the time of 'troubadour' paintings depicting romantic medieval scenes, and that of novels focussing on monuments from the middle ages. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; animal (sheep) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8943... | Go to resource |
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