3-035-632 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Houses near Orléans (Maisons aux Environs d'Orléans), about 1830. Additional Info: A countryside path cuts across a mustard-yellow field and slopes downward toward a small village. Under a cloudless sky, crisp, strong sunlight brightens a zigzag row of roofs and chimneys. Contrasting shadows are cast from rooftop to rooftop. In the right foreground, a less sharply defined verdant mass balances the geometrical order of the architecture.