Medium: | watercolor on paper |
Size: | 14 x 24 in (36 x 61 cm) approx |
Inscription: | l/l "Frederick Schàfer", in the artist's characteristic block-letter hand, grave accent probably intended to be an umlaut |
Provenance: | In collection of Oscar Lemer, D.D.S., and Trudy Lemer, San Francisco, by 1973. |
Reproductions: | William K. Dick photo #97 (color, 1973) |
Description: | A brown doe stands in a bright clearing at the center, to the left of a stream, in the midst of a forest. The forest completely fills the painting; we see only the bottommost branches of the nearby trees. Behind the doe are the trunks of two immense broadleaf trees; beyond the doe are two more; to the right of the stream stand several white-barked trees. The stream flows around a point at the right center, past two boulders, and toward the viewer, filling the front center and right edge of the painting. A thin trunk with a few leaves sprawls across the center between the large trees, above the doe. The painting is mostly in greens, greys, and whites, with spots of brown here and there. (From a color photograph.) |
Identification: | Assigned, descriptive title. |
In index(es): | Title list, Barbizon-style forest interiors |