Hippolyte Camille Delpy

Peasant with her Cows at the River

1905

Oil on linen panel. Signed on recto; titled and dated on verso.

Oil on linen panel. Signed and dated on verso.

Oil on panel Signed and titled on verso.

Original Oil on Panel Signed lower right.

Oil on linen panel Signed J. MacDonald, lower right. Titled and dated on verso.

Oil on linen panel Signed J. MacDonald lower right. Titled and dated on verso.

A luxuriant forest is the romantic and lyrical landscape where the dance of the nude nymphs takes place in this joyful 19th Century antique oil on canvas painting featuring a mythological scene. Dance of the Nymphs and Naiads is a myth inspired by the tales of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, a subject already much loved in the Renaissance period as an allegory of rebirth - as in one of the most famous paintings in the world the Spring by Sandro Botticelli- then reproduced throughout the neoclassicism by academic painters -due to the renewed interest in classical artworks following the discovery of archaeological sites- and taken up later, with ecological purposes and meanings, also by the Barbizon school and Impressionist artists. The present artwork – signed Vagner low left and datable to the second half of the 19th century - is closely inspired by an important work by the great Camille Corot, which is now housed at the Musée d'Orsay (Paris). This historical oil on canvas painting, featuring a joyful scene with the three graces and other dancing nymphs...

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