Dance under the Trees at the Edge of the Lake – (Jean Baptiste Camille Corot) ◄ ก่อน ต่อไป ►

ศิลปิน: Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

วันที่: 1870

ขนาด: 88 x 112 cm

เทคนิค: Oil On Canvas

We look across a grassy expanse leading to a lake, with several women, tiny in scale, dancing under a grove of trees to our right in this horizontal landscape painting. Painted with soft, almost feathery brushstrokes of fern and moss green to suggest leaves, two massive trees nearly fill the right half of the composition. Three light-skinned women wearing voluminous togas over one shoulder link hands in a circle beneath the tree, near the lower center of the painting. Lit by the low sun, the woman to our left wears rose pink, the center woman shimmering yellow, and the third woman emerald green. Another women to our left, wearing sapphire blue, runs toward the trio with arms outstretched. A fifth woman wearing a scarlet-red skirt reclines near the tree trunks to our right. A low, rectangular box about the length of a dining room table sits on the grass between the trio and the reclining woman. A few brushstrokes suggest flowers or plants on the box. The lake beyond is painted with smooth strokes of pale apricot and shell pink. A bank of bushes or tall vegetation close to us to our left is painted with touches of forest and olive green, with pale yellow to capture light glinting off the uppermost leaves. Beyond it, and hazy in the distance to our left, a large white building is nestled high on a hill painted in tones of muted plum purple and flaxen gold. Pale, fawn-brown hills lead down to the water in the distance, farther back along the lake. A few thin clouds float in the ice-blue sky above. The scene is loosely painted with visible brushstrokes and touches, so some details are difficult to make out. The artist signed the work in the lower left corner: “COROT.”