Les Champs Barbizon 5cm x 32cm

5cm x 32cm

Maroniez’s expressive brushstrokes and muted palette of grays

Materials: Oil on cardboard framed under glass

almost symbolic approach

stirring ingredients within a terracotta bowl atop a rough wooden table

Les Champs Barbizon 5cm x 32cm20th century oil painting on hardboard signed Pierre Agns (18981964). The work is named "Corps de ferme" (Farmhouse) and is dated 25 for 1925. This bright and quintessential early 20th century landscape oil painting on wood shows a traditional farm in Brittany. The stone house and barns form an enclosed courtyard the center of rural life. The fields surrounding the farm sweep outward in long, linear bands of color, representing crops in full growth.