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Description: | Signed: yes Description: in this brilliantly lit landscape two windmills stand silhouetted against a threatening sky. Small figures of peasants can just be made out near the mills and in the foreground a woman is working - probably bleaching garments or sheets, near a cottage surrounded by a wall. Hervier's work was often inspired by the daily life of the common people. His work was admired by the novelists Edmond and Jules de Goncourt who themselves described the life of the lower classes in their novels. The de Goncourts wrote of Hervier's 'wealth of dirty colour, a gift for knocking off street stalls or leprous hovels, or squat flat-roofed mills, country scenes with inky skies, washing blown about by the wind in a bare field.' | Subjects: | landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Hervier, Louis Adolphe (French painter and printmaker, 1818-1879) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9202... | Go to resource |
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