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- The repoussoir effect of the amorphic grey structure surrounding the figures frames the truncated forms and obscures the viewer s perception of scale.
- This artistic device in which an object is placed in the foreground to increase the depth of field of the overall painting is called repoussoir.
- Like his contemporaries in Antwerp, Abraham Govaerts and Alexander Keirincx, Leytens painted wooded landscapes populated with small figures, bracketed by strong repoussoir trees.
- His paintings of the mid-1640s often feature a diagonal slope of land, a tree which functions as a repoussoir, and figures accompanied by horses.
- Figures are also commonly employed as " repoussoir " devices by artists such as Paolo Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens and Impressionists such as Gustave Caillebotte.
- Even more common, the repoussoir appears in 25, with " Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window ", one of three which feature a rug-covered table or balustrade between the figure and the viewer.
- Compositional formulae using elements like the repoussoir were evolved which remain influential in modern photography and painting, notably by Poussin and Claude Lorrain, both French artists living in 17th century Rome and painting largely classical subject-matter, or Biblical scenes set in the same landscapes.
- In two-dimensional works of art, such as painting, printmaking, photography or bas-relief, "'repoussoir "'is an object along the right or left foreground that directs the viewer's eye into the composition by bracketing ( framing ) the edge.
- As in the pendant in Hamburg, and many paintings by Claude, the composition draws the viewer's gaze into the background by having two large " repoussoir " elements at each side, where one is very close at hand, and the other set much further back.