Joyful gallop of Camargue mares with their foals returning from the pasture.
The author of the painting is certainly an attentive observer, a lover of this ancient breed typical of the Camargue. In fact he portrays the adult mares with their gray-white coat and their morphological characteristics with somewhat large heads, broad foreheads, short but wide ears, large and expressive eyes.
In painting the three foals he wanted to mark the turning of their color from brown to black of the youngest, to protect themselves from the sun's rays and blend in better with the ground, then slowly when they grow up with age, they lighten up until they reach adulthood. , around the age of four, they will become gray-white.
Work signed and dated 1983
Oil painting on canvas.
Original frame.
France: 1983
Measurements: height cm. 57 width cm. 73.5
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