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Description: | The style of this painting indicates that it was probably executed during the second half of the eighteenth century or at the beginning of the nineteenth, after the fashion for Classical or ideal landscapes, and before that for sublime Romantic landscapes or Realist outdoor scenes depicting the harsh life of the peasantry. The artist was nonetheless certainly influenced by the Classical landscape tradition of painters such as Claude Lorrain, as this presents some sort of ideal view of peasant life, where rurality is seen as a beautiful wood and a sunny river bank. | Subjects: | landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Belanger, Eugène (French artist, active late 18th - early 19th centuries) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8973... | Go to resource |
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