. Catalogue of masterpieces by "the men of 1830" : forming the private collection of Mr. H. S. Henry, Philadelphia. au, along which extends a broad path borderedby a row of leafless trees, dominate a steep hillside which slopes down on the left,where the vista extends over the roofs of houses past a square church towerwith many windows to a mysterious distance, suggesting a broad wooded single figure of a peasant woman in a gray dress, with a red kerchief overher head and a white sack thrown over her left shoulder, stands in the right fore-ground leaning u])on a stick, and is stro
. Catalogue of masterpieces by "the men of 1830" : forming the private collection of Mr. H. S. Henry, Philadelphia. au, along which extends a broad path borderedby a row of leafless trees, dominate a steep hillside which slopes down on the left,where the vista extends over the roofs of houses past a square church towerwith many windows to a mysterious distance, suggesting a broad wooded single figure of a peasant woman in a gray dress, with a red kerchief overher head and a white sack thrown over her left shoulder, stands in the right fore-ground leaning u])on a stick, and is strongly accentuated by the sunlight, whichbroadh illuminates the landscape, casting deep shadows upon the chfiteau walls, theroofs of the houses, the church tower and along the gravelly path under the sky is completely covered by a veil of soil luminous clouds. Signed at the lower left, Corot. Collection Bocquet, 1869. Collection Michel-Levy, Paris, 187(>. Lljxixmlion clcs Cent Chefs-doeuvres, Paris, 1H!)2. No. 05. Reproduced in Moeeau-Nelatons work on Cokot, 1905. Purchaxed from Duii.\.\i> PREMIERES FEUILLES: PRES DE MANTES JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT No. 2JEAN BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT 1796—1874 PREMIERES FEUILLES: PRES DE MANTES Height, 13 inches; length, 18 inches The slender trunks of scattered trees, some of them straight, others gnarled andtwisted, rise out of the grass in the foreground and extend out of the picture. Thebranches are partly bare, partly covered with sparse foliage, and beneath the treesat the right the figure of a peasant woman is seen searching among the the grove is a gently curving, much travelled road which extends to themiddle distance on the right, where a few houses are seen standing on the slope ofa The figures of a man and a woman make a prominent accent on the sun-lit roadway. The summit of the distant hillside on the left is crowned by a largeclumj) of trees in spring foliage, which breaks the f
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