Jules Coignet
Jules Coignet was a noted landscape painter who produced a considerable number of views in the mid-19th century. Today we present an extraordinary landscape with a painter, maybe the artist himself.
Painted in Bozen, also known as Bolzano, in the South Tyrol, the painting shows an artist at work, facing a moss-green, craggy mountain that fills most of our view. He has cream-white pants and black shoes, and sits on a three-legged stool. A canvas rests on or just beyond his knees, and he holds one hand up to its blank surface. A tall, parchment-white umbrella is pitched next to him, to our right, to provide some shade. A few swipes of brick red, brown, and pinkish beige next to him could be bags or other materials leaning against a rock. Meadows in the valley are painted with pale sage green, and a cluster of tan buildings sits near the edge of an ice-blue body of water. The hill rises steeply from the valley. It dips a bit to our left and comes more than three-quarters up the composition to our right. It is painted in hazy, muted tones of moss green, mauve purple, and smoke gray. The sky deepens from pale lemon yellow along the horizon through light peach to muted blue along the top edge.
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P.S. If you love mountains, you're also going to love these magnificent landscapes by Ferdinand Hodler! Amazing, aren't they?