Watering Place
- Medium
- Woodcut in brown ink on thin Japanese-style paper
- Dimensions
- 11 15/16 x 15 5/8 in. (30.32 x 39.69 cm) (image) 16 3/8 x 17 13/16 in. (41.59 x 45.24 cm) (sheet)
- Genre
Tags
france
About
Auguste Lepère often traveled to the countryside to find relief from the bustle of Paris. The flat terrain and the distant windmill at the left suggest that we are in Holland. Lepère found inspiration in the Dutch landscape tradition, showing cowherds at work and tall, spindly, light-filled trees.
