{"product_id":"mid-century-oil-park-scene-with-fountain-signed-fuentes","title":"Mid-Century Oil, Park Scene with Fountain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMid-20th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15 x 18 inches, framed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn oil on canvas-textured artist's board, signed Fuentes lower right.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA public garden with a stone fountain and a domed neoclassical pavilion behind the trees. The bare branches and flat cool light put it in late winter or early spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is painted in an impressionistic style, outdoors and from life. The color palette is tonal, grays and muted greens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe limed and combed wood frame is period appropriate rather than added later, with knocks and abrasion at the corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe picture is built from the standard vocabulary of the nineteenth-century public garden: a formal fountain, a neoclassical pavilion, and rows of plane trees held in check. Cutting the trees back to the same points each year keeps them small enough for a square and swells the branch ends into knuckles, which is why they read as they do with the leaves off. The plane tree came to dominate public space in France through generations of planting along roads, squares and canal banks, and the municipal garden itself spread across Europe through the nineteenth century, as towns set aside planted ground for ordinary people to walk in. Squares of this kind still furnish town centers from France through Spain and Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56879350087846,"sku":"FD-016","price":365.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/IMG-7259.jpg?v=1785701833","url":"https:\/\/foundresse.com\/products\/mid-century-oil-park-scene-with-fountain-signed-fuentes","provider":"foundresse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}