The Rugged Alps

Here we have a very lovely scheme of gray-blues and deeper blues holding delicate suggestions of amethyst. The mountans are modeled with all the directness and power that the subject demands. The blue foreground shadow suggests, for all its transparency, the structural solidity of a wall of lapis-lazuli. Above this grandeur of blues the sky enfolds the mountains like a veil of pale gray-green, and the soaring peaks themselves eae gray-pink in the early morning light.