Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, 1852 - Figures and a Dog in a Landscape - fine art print

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At the center of this landscape is a group of figures posed in a pyramidal arrangement borrowed from Renaissance prototypes of the Holy Family. The man, who serves as the highest point of this arrangement of figures, imitates representations of the biblical Joseph as he leans to his left and gazes at the seated woman from behind her shoulder. His attitude and simple nineteenth century peasant attire contrast to those of the woman and child, who are more elaborately dressed with soft yellow hair and contemplative, downcast gazes. The two female figures look to the attentive and loyal dog who sits in the leftmost foreground before a pool of water. Diaz applies paint liberally to parts of the canvas and sparingly to others, leaving the gessoed canvas showing through the painted surface in the foreground. His visible brushwork and attention to the landscape recall eighteenth century precedents by Rococo artists such as Watteau and Fragonard.

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About the art print Figures and a Dog in a Landscape

The 19th century piece of art was painted by the male French painter Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña. The version of the artpiece measures the size 17 1/4 x 11 3/4 in (43,8 x 29,8 cm) and was painted with the techinque of oil on wood. Furthermore, the artpiece is in the the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (public domain). Additionally, the work of art has the following creditline: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. Furthermore, alignment is portrait with a side ratio of 1 : 1.4, meaning that the length is 29% shorter than the width.

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