Study for “In the Woods, Evening”, Alexandre Séon, 1892–94
Colored pencils on beige laid paper, 35.3 x 23 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund.
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In this drawing of nymphs holding lyres, Alexandre Séon hoped to depict, in his words, “the spirit of the forest.” He was inspired by fairy-tales he heard as a child about the woods near the remote village where he grew up. By applying colored pencils to a roughly textured sheet of paper, Séon evoked the hazy tones of twilight and gave the sheet a dreamlike tenor.
-The Cleveland Museum of Art
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