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"Les Halles" • Léon Lhermitte • 1895 • Oil on Canvas • 404 x 635 cm |
It is a beautiful example of a painter using vectors to lead our eye through a cacophonous scene. The vectors are created by many elements in the scene, the direction of arms and hands, the lines of crates and baskets, but especially by the gazes of the individual figures. Each figure looks towards another and slowly leads us through all of the engagements happening throughout the painting.
The canvas is thinly painted and there are areas where you can just barely make out charcoal marks beneath the paint. Lhermitte almost certainly created a number of studies and drawings on a small scale and then enlarged the entire composition by using a proportional grid.
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"Les Halles" Detail • Léon Lhermitte • 1895 • Oil on Canvas • 404 x 635 cm |
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"Les Halles" Detail • Léon Lhermitte • 1895 • Oil on Canvas • 404 x 635 cm |
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"Les Halles" Detail • Léon Lhermitte • 1895 • Oil on Canvas • 404 x 635 cm |
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"Les Halles" Detail • Léon Lhermitte • 1895 • Oil on Canvas • 404 x 635 cm |
Photos by Kimberly at Saunders Fine Arts.
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