A copy of the painting 1636 painting “River Ford” by the French proto-plein-air painter Claude Lorrain (1600-1682). This suivier, or follower, has faithfully reproduced the original but revised the number of human characters from the original two to a single bathing woman. By 1636 Lorrain had begun to reduce the historicism of his paintings and focus on nature as the protagonist: here it envelopes the bather and lends a dramatic impression with the darkness in the trees and the ground contrasting with the pink and blue dusk of the background. The canvas and frame appear to be quite old.
Oil on canvas, measures: 73,7 x 80,5 cm
A copy of the painting 1636 painting “River Ford” by the French proto-plein-air painter Claude Lorrain (1600-1682). This suivier, or follower, has faithfully reproduced the original but revised the number of human characters from the original two to a single bathing woman. By 1636 Lorrain had begun to reduce the historicism of his paintings and focus on nature as the protagonist: here it envelopes the bather and lends a dramatic impression with the darkness in the trees and the ground contrasting with the pink and blue dusk of the background. The canvas and frame appear to be quite old.
Oil on canvas, measures: 73,7 x 80,5 cm