Pastoral Landscapes

Serene landscapes featuring rural scenes, fields, and waterways, characterized by subtle colors and atmospheric details, evoking a sense of tranquility.

Village Scene, Sunset, c. 1870, Jules Dupré, French, Nantes, Pays de la Loire 1811-LIsle-Adam, Ile-de-France 1889, 19 7/8 x 26 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (50.5 x 67.3 x 10.8 cm), Oil on canvas, France, 19th century

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Ziem, Félix (n.1821-02-26-D.1911-11-10), rue Lepic, Montmartre, 18th arrondissement. (Dummy title), 1821. Oil on marouflaged paper on panel. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

$View of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme 1896-98 Edgar Degas French Degass provençal painting of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme, a medieval town on the Picardy coast northwest of Paris, surveys the site from an elevated vantage point, lending a view of rooftops and façades as well as backyards and gardens. This landscape was not painted on site, but later in the artists studio where he experimented with the structure of his many pictures of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme. The particularly ambiguous foreground and fractured elements in the background may result from the synthesis of two separate drawings sketched on site, the left half aligning with one sketch and the right another. Degas once advised: “A painting is something that requires as much trickery, malice, and vice as the perpetration of a crime, so create falsely and add a touch from nature.”. View of Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme 459098$