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MUSEUM/GALLERY QUALITY REPLICA OF PIERRE-AUGUSTE COTS' "LE PRINTEMPS (THE SPRINGTIME or THE RETURN OF SPRING)". HAND PAINTED OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS MEASURING APPROX 50CM X 60CM, BEAUTIFULLY FRAMED AT A COST OF R750-00.
Le Printemps¿¿¿ or ¿¿¿The Springtime¿¿¿ is perhaps the best known work of French Classicist, Pierre-Auguste Cot. Famed more for his portraits than scenes such as this, Cot painted in a style known as Beaux Arts Classicism - a style characterised by its distinct attention to the ornate detail of ancient art.
In ¿¿¿Le Printemps¿¿¿, spring, love and the feeling of renewal are blended in this style. The light seeping through the woodland highlights the delicate creases in the lovers¿¿¿ garments, such details that distinguish the classical style from all others. And Cot was to give way to a whole new manner of using the light to find the detail. It was in 1883, the year of Cot¿¿¿s death, that Pierre-Auguste Renoir created some of the first examples of Impressionism, an art form that rejected classical styles but would never have flourished without looking back at such paintings as this.