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 Large trees with a greyish verdure, of warm, powerful tones, cover the painting almost entirely, affording only, to the left, a glimpse of a clear sky, and on the horizon, a vista of distant hills, bathed in the silvery mists of morning.

In this poetic landscape, winged Cupids are fluttering, like libellulas, among the flowers.

A young nymph catches one of these flying Cupids and seems intending to hold him fast with a light woollen thread. Her head, seen in profile, is detached, beneath a luminous sky, from the background of silvery hills. She is dressed only in a light, short drapery, thrown behind and fastened to the shoulders. Her hair is tied up with a red ribbon.

Signed on the left : Corot, 1865.

Canvas. 6i in by. 5i 1/2 in.