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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Set in a pastoral clearing, some female nudes bathe and relax around a woodland pool. The subject, style and composition of the image all allude to the neo-classical ideals of academic painting. The work was clearly intended as a light-hearted fantasy, however, rather than a serious mythological history painting. In the foreground one of the figures tickles her sleeping companion with a stick. Behind, while two of the nudes swim with abandon, others undress. The contemporary-style hat and clothes lying on the ground to the right hint that the women may be real and not just fantastical nymphs. | Subjects: | landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bellier, Jean François Marie (French painter, 1745-1836) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8984... | Go to resource |
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