Nº 35
Reading edition
Jules Dupré FRENCH: 1811-1889
THE EDGE OF A FOREST
Height, 9½ inches; length, 14½ inches
A few cows are seen in a small open glade in a large forest, two of them near a large ledge of rock which rises out of the coarse grass on the top of a slight elevation in the left foreground, and two others are drinking in a shallow pool under the trees on the right. A rank of densely growing trees extends across the picture in the middle distance in strong contrast against the luminous blue of the summer sky, in which small lazily floating cumuli are strongly touched by the sunlight, which accentuates the slender trunk of a tree in the middle of the composition, and glints here and there upon the animals, the rock and the grass.
Signed at the lower left, Jules Dupré.
Collection of the late George I. Seney, New York, 1894.