Burial in My Own Neighbourhood
Also titled Begrafenis in mijn eigen buurt
Maurice Denis (Granville (Manche), 1870–1943)
c. 1894
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 45.8 cm x width 32 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the VriendenLoterij
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
A funeral is in progress in the courtyard of the convent in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, the painter’s home town. The mournful atmosphere is heightened by the fallow, reddish-brown fields stretching out behind the building. Visible in the distance, against a backdrop of dark hills, is a steam train chugging along, releasing billows of aqua blue smoke. Denis built up his landscape by juxtaposing pure, unmixed colours separated by dark lines.
