Le Voyageur au Repos (The Traveller at Rest)
Summary
This landscape scene is rendered with very fine, quite loose line-work in a sepia tone. This allows for the different textures of features in the landscape to be depicted and for a sense of movement to be created, as in the leaves of the trees that frame either side of the composition. On the right hand side there is a single tree in the middle distance, whilst on the right hand side there are clusters of bushes and a few smaller trees that grow along the hill on the right. In the centre of the middle ground there is a clearing through which the horizon line can be seen, and it is this clearing that the man seated in the foreground is looking out to. The man, who is seated on a rock, has his back to the viewer as he turns to look into the clearing. In his right hand he holds a stick, whilst his left hand is resting on his left knee, and he is wearing a hat. He is seated alone, with nothing else in the foreground apart from other rocks and bushes.
Object Name
Le Voyageur au Repos (The Traveller at Rest)
Creators Name
Date Created
about 1870
Dimensions
plate mark: 12.7cm x 19.5cm
support: 18.2cm x 26.3cm
accession number
1882.88
Collection Group
Place of creation
Europe
Support
paper
Medium
ink (brown)
Credit
Gifted by Alphonse Legros, 1881
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