“October is an account of the bleak autumnal potato harvest, set in a bare, featureless landscape. October was painted at the artist’s native village of Damvillers, in the Meuse Valley to the northeast of Paris. Here, inspired by the example of Millet and Courbet, Bastien-Lepage had planned to paint rural life as he knew it, celebrating its hardships as well as the inherent dignity of the peasants themselves.”
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So beautiful ❣️
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Lepage is wonderful.
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You can tell the day is not bleak to those women, who are thinking of all the potato pancakes and latkes they can warm their families up with this winter…
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This is just beautiful! Thank you! 🙂
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Beautiful. ❤
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