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The woman's eyes are half-closed and completely ignore the outside world and viewer, while her mouth is slightly shaped into an ambiguous smile, evocative of the Mona Lisa. [3] Other than her face that takes up most of the painting, the rest of the painting is barely even sketched in, with a primed, but unpainted, background. [4]
La Femme au Cheval is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 162 × 130.5 cm (63.8 × 51.4 in). As the title indicates the painting represents a woman and a horse. The rather elegant woman wearing only a pearl necklace and the horse are immersed in a landscape with trees and a window (in the 'background'), a vase, with fruits and vegetation (in the 'foreground') clearly taken from the ...
List of drawings by Vincent van Gogh is an incomplete collection of drawings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) that form an important part of his complete body of work. The listing is ordered by year and then by catalogue number .
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[9] [10] It depicts a half-height woman turned toward her right at a three-quarter angle, but with her face turned toward her left. [11] The animal in her arms twists in a similar manner, resulting in considerable contrapposto with the lady, [12] a technique Leonardo explored earlier with the angel in the Virgin of the Rocks. [13]
The horse uses its binocular vision by looking straight at an object, raising its head when it looks at a distant predator or focuses on an obstacle to jump. To use binocular vision on a closer object near the ground, such as a snake or threat to its feet, the horse drops its nose and looks downward with its neck somewhat arched. A horse will ...