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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This detailed composition is highly neo-classical in style. In the background a gently undulating vista is lit by the rosy glow of an evening sun. A ruined building to the left frames the distant scene of a Roman arena beside a meandering river. Yet the serenity of the landscape is contrasted by the drama conveyed in the foreground. A man has been bathing his feet in a pool but now leaps back in fear. His gaze is fixed on the shadows of the opposite bank where the tail of a large serpent is seen slipping into the water. | Subjects: | landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Michallon, Achille Etna (French painter and printmaker, 1796-1822) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9021... | Go to resource |
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