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Percheron dans un pâturage


Percheron dans un pâturage (eng. "A Percheron horse in a pasture") is an oil painting created by Achilles Giroux circa 1860.

Museum
The painting can be viewed in Louvre.

Description
The painting presents a horse turned back from the viewer. The animal's portrait is completed with suppressed background: a pasture, an outline of distant trees and a single bush closing the right side of the painting. The piece is kept in warm, yellow, green and brown tonation. The contour visible particularly well on the animal's legs renders the piece an illustration rather than a realistic painting.

Composition
Of many types of composition, the painting constitutes a diagonal one. It is determined mainly by the animal's back line. Although the background offers a subtle horizontal line as well, it is the foreground that establishes the predominant impression.

General References

 * Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony, 2011, Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice, Juliette Aristides
 * Explore Drawing and Painting
 * Louvre