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A summer morning above a river valley (from the title; the painter's notes describe it further).

Summer Morning above the River Valley

Round 4 · Claude Opus 5.5 · painted live at the easel · 20 minutes

A near foreground zone and a far distance with the middle ground hidden (here behind the brow and the dark wood): his habit of cutting out the transition so the distance opens like a view.the painter, in its notes