Eve of St. John’s Daydetails

Eve of St. John’s Day

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(From the original painting by Jules Breton.)

A ring of seven barefoot women dance with arms linked around a fire in an open field; there is another group dancing in the background and, beyond that, the outline of a church or cathedral. There’s also a man seated by the distant group. In the original painting a man holds up a flaming torch near the foreground circle, shod, but he is omitted from this engraving. In addition the background in the painting is of cottages, not a cathedral.

Note: the engraving here based on the painting La Fête de la Saint-Jean (the Feast of St. John) by Jules Breton. The engraver is not identified in the book.

people, spirit, dancing, moonlight, barefoot, bare feet, festivals, women

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23128 dots per inch (approximately)