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Description: | Signed: yes Description: An Eastern woman is drying clothes on a roof terrace. She is set against the calm sea in the background, with the sun half-disappeared beyond the horizon. Behind the woman, the rooftops of similar dwellings are visible. Despite the more humble subject matter of Drying Clothes, Constant's style, a conciliation between classicism and restrained exuberance of romantic colour, remains. Soft, warm tones and harmony of line are characteristic of his work of this period. Contrasting orange and blue give a vibrancy to the colour scheme and the pure light of the Orient is rendered with conviction. | Subjects: | everyday life; figure; marine | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Constant, Jean Joseph Benjamin (French painter, 1845-1902) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9195... | Go to resource |
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