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Description: | The realist subject of this expressive painting allows to date it from the mid-nineteenth century. The artist, preoccupied only by the elderly woman's expression and features, has left the background in the dark. The weathered, tired face, simple clothing and muted tones all suggest the sitter's hard difficult life, past and present. Realism depicts subjects in the most objective manner possible, without idealizing them. It is a reaction against the excesses of Romanticism and Neoclassicism. | Subjects: | portrait | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: French School Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9002... | Go to resource |
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