On the Summit
On the Summit (Sur Les Cimes) c1903 by French Painter Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret (1852 – 1929)); a leading artists of the Naturalist School.
This painting depicts a maiden sitting on a mountain top that is dressed in a white robe and covered in a white veil which flows around her body and covers part of her head that is lightly covered with white frost.
By her left side is a stone cistern (a tank for storing water), filled with ice crystals and in the distance on her right is a valley that is surrounded by blue mountains and a glacial lake.
She has dark piercing eyes that are looking upward as if looking at something of great concern in the far distance has she rest her chin on her left hand with her elbow resting on the edge of the cistern; while her right hand rest on her right thigh.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas print online.
Information Below Derived From Wikipedia.org
Pascal was born in Paris France on January 7, 1852 and was raised by his grandfather, from which he took the name Bouveret after his father emigrated to Brazil.
He started his education in 1869, studying at the École des Beaux-Arts under French Painters Alexandre Cabanel (1823 – 1889) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904) from 1869 to 1875.
From 1875 through 1896 he exhibited at the Paris Salon, first exhibiting there in 1875, where in 1880 he won the first place for the painting “An Accident”; then in 1885 he received the medal of honor for his piece “Horses At The Watering Trough”.
During the 1880s Pascal along with French Painter Gustave Courtois (1852 – 1923), maintained a studio in a fashionable part of Paris called Neuilly-sur-Seine; and by this time was a well known and established leading artist known for his peasant scenes, mystical creations and religious compositions.
In 1891 Pascal was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour, and nine years later became a member of the Institut de France.
