The Repose – (Jean Baptiste Camille Corot) ◄ Попередній наступне ►

Artist: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Дата: 1870

Розмір: 84 x 127 cm

техніка: Oil On Canvas

A nude, young woman with smooth, pale skin reclines against a grassy mound in a sunny field in this long, horizontal landscape painting. The scene is painted with blended strokes, giving it a soft look. The woman is close to us near the lower center of the painting. With her head to our left, she leans against the low mound supporting her back. Her body is angled mostly away from us, but she turns to look back at us over her shoulder. Her right arm is draped casually over her right hip. The fingers of that hand brush the rim of an iron-gray dish on the ground beside her. Her left foot is tucked under her extended right leg. She has large brown eyes under thick brows, a slender nose, and red lips set in her round face. Her dark brown hair is swept up and gathered at the back of her head. A leafy wreath or headdress is suggested by daubs of sage and avocado green, and a long stroke of brown paint could be a ribbon hanging down her back. She lies on a caramel-brown cloth or pelt dotted with black and streaked with white at the edges. The olive-green field around her is smoothly painted and speckled with dots of white, gold, and light blue, suggesting small flowers. Four shadowy figures cluster in the distance on the right side. Two hold up a gleaming object, perhaps a cup or jug. The scene is framed along the right edge of the painting by a delicate, leafy tree curving up and over from a rocky outcropping. The landscape extends far into the distance where it meets a line of low hills at the horizon, which comes halfway up the canvas. The pale blue sky above is filled with long bands of smoke-gray and white clouds. The artist signed and dated the work with orange letters in the lower left, “Corot 1860.”