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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Deshayes painted a number of works depicting woodcutters. It is possible that such imagery was inspired by his time at the Forest of Fontainebleau, where the issue of deforestation was highly contentious. Many trees were being felled to supply the urban regeneration of a fast-expanding Paris. In this painting the focus rests on the centre of a stark foreground where men sit on recently cut tree-trunks watching a smoking fire. In the corner lies a neat stack of wooden posts. Behind stands the receding forest where rising smoke and more piles of timber indicate further activity. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Deshayes, Eugene (French artist, 1828-1890) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9012... | Go to resource |
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