Antique Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot The dance of the Nymphs Framed Landscape
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Antique Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot The Dance of the Nymphs Framed Landscape Print Wall Art French: Une matinée, la danse des nymphes Frame: 19 1/2" x 16 3/4" Exposed Art: 15 1/2 x 12 5/8" Beautiful wooden frame in great condition, back bottom corners of frame have chips Very nice condition, gently used. Smoke free home. By the mid-19th century, the Barbizon painters, of whom Corot was close, no longer deemed it necessary to refer to subject matters from Antiquity in order to justify their interest in nature. In A Morning. The Dance of the Nymph, the curtain of trees isolating the characters at the back has the effect of a theatre curtain and evokes an opera ballet, an ambiguity to which the title contributes, as the word "matinée" may be an allusion to daytime performances, as opposed to "soirées". The smooth and flaky rendering of the foliage, specific of Corot's work, testify of the artist's interest shifting from the scene to the elements of nature, the atmosphere of the lands