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Description: | In his own lifetime, Alexandre Gabriel Decamps was one of France's most highly regarded history painters. Though a Parisian, he spent part of his childhood in the countryside of Picardy, living amongst the peasants and attending school with local woodcutters' children. He later moved to the Forest of Fontainebleau, mixing with the Barbizon School of artists, whose aim was to represent peasant life in an unromanticised and realistic way. Combining these influences, Decamps began to produce simple genre scenes, intimate in scale and subdued in colour. In this example, a mother, laden with firewood, ushers her two small children through thick woods. | Subjects: | landscape; everyday life; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Decamps, Alexandre-Gabriel (French painter and printmaker, 1803-1860) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9195... | Go to resource |
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