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This is Menton on the French Côte d‘Azure. It was a fashionable resort in Harpignies’ time, but he has chosen to ignore the villas and restaurants among coloured umbrellas and palm trees to show us the tougher side of the Mediterranean, where plants and people had more of a struggle to live than down at the coast.
Harpignies harked back to the idyllic landscapes of Claude, painted nearly three centuries before, but without characters from Greek or Roman myth. He depicted what he saw around him, as other modern painters did, but with a smoother, more classical technique – he was of his day, but with a firm link to the past.
Title
Olive Trees at Menton
Date
1907
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 99.7 x W 81.3 cm
Accession number
NG3808
Acquisition method
Presented by H. Arthur Robinson to the Tate Gallery in memory of R.H. Tripp, 1923; transferred, 1956
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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