Study for In the Woods, Evening, 1892-94. Alexandre Séon (French, 1855-1917). Colored pencils on laid paper; sheet: x 23 cm (13 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.). In this drawing of nymphs holding lyres, Alexandre Séon hoped to depict, in his words, “the spirit of the forest.” He was inspired by fairy-tales he heard as a child about the woods near the remote village where he grew up. By applying colored pencils to a roughly textured sheet of paper, Séon evoked the hazy tones of twilight and gave the sheet a dreamlike tenor.

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