Ninth Bucolic: Moeris and Lycidas Wait for Virgil

1955

Jacques Villon

Associated Names
Jacques Villon

Artist, French, 1875 - 1963

The image shows a landscape with a high horizon, divided into ground and sky. Hills are visible on the horizon with scattered light-colored structures. Loose brushstrokes convey movement. The color palette is mainly cool with hints of pale yellow and soft pink. Two sketch-like human figures with a dog are on a landmass with abstract plant or structure suggestions. In the distance, the landscape slopes upward towards hills under a cloudy sky.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on Japan paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1963.11.255

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ginestet/Pouillon 1979, no. E574

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1979

  • Ginestet, Colette de and Catherine Pouillon. Jacques Villon: les estampes et les illustrations: catalogue raisonne. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1979.

Wikidata ID

Q65509878

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