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Important and beautiful oil on canvas representing a mountain landscape, this large painting of approximately 130 by 90 is part of the trend of romanticism which represents landscapes full of grandeur and fear;
It represents a bird's eye view with a superposition of several planes, the gaze starts from and goes down to the group of characters, the source of the light is visible because it comes from this beautiful sky, it is soft and at the same time cold, it does not is not contrasted and seems natural, it gives a sublime and mysterious effect.
the dominant colors are quite cold, they are primary and secondary, nuanced between the pale of the background and the bright of the foreground and the second plane, there is little contrast between the colors, they are realistic thus making it possible to make an image the as real as possible so that the viewer feels emotions when seeing this view with this lake in the middle of the canvas and the mountains in the back!!
The line is visible, the contours are "clear" except in the sky, there are no real boundaries rendered by a line but rather by another color, everything is very subtle, the style is "slick" with transparency effects, the light touch which gives a feeling of a mysterious and magical world........
Beautiful painting presented in good condition in a contemporary frame, the canvas is attributed to François Diday 1802-1877, great Swiss painter of mountain landscapes
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