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A Bleaching Field  1870

by Jacob Maris

Women are busy doing laundry near a French village church. One of them spreads the linen on the bleaching field, while another fetches water from the pump. Maris divided the space into three areas by placing a fence between the women and an autumnal-brown hedge before the church. The saplings’ delicate branches reinforce the horizontal lines of the composition.
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Courtesy of Rijksmuseum