Nº 53
Reading edition
Théodore Rousseau FRENCH: 1812-1867
THE PLAIN OF BARBIZON AT TWILIGHT
Height, 14½ inches; length, 21 inches
The sun has disappeared below the horizon and the sky is glowing with ruddy, reflected light, touching the edges of the high-floating clouds and sending a warm glow over the landscape. The motive was found in a flat country, where the horizon is almost as level as the sea, and the irregular ground is broken here and there by rocks, bushes and small pools of water, and by sparsely growing trees. In the left foreground, near a stunted oak tree which grows alongside a muddy road, are dimly suggested in the gloom of twilight figures of peasants with horses and a cart, and on the right a small pool of water reflects the glow of the sky.
Signed at the lower left, TH. R.