1850
From the collection of National Museum of Art of Romania
Scenă la fântână is a 1850 by Constantin Daniel Rosenthal, held at National Museum of Art of Romania.
A woman in a dark dress with a white apron leans on a wooden well, her hand resting on a bucket. A man in a light shirt and dark apron stands beside her, holding a hat and looking at her. Behind them, a tree and a thatched roof peek out, with a distant fence and rolling hills under a partly cloudy sky. The woman’s dress has a red flower tucked into her hair, and the man’s apron has a green pocket. The painting feels quiet, like a moment frozen in time. Look up chiaroscuro next to see how light and shadow create depth in paintings like this.
Constantin Daniel Rosenthal (b.Rosenthal Konstantin, 1820 – July 23, 1851) was a painter and sculptor of Austrian birth and a Romanian 1848 revolutionary, best known for his portraits and his choice of Romanian Romantic nationalist subjects.
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