Shadowed Slopes

We are now among the French Alps, looking at mountains whose steep declivities are gray-pink in light, blue in shadow. The subject has been handled with marked distinction, in brush strokes at once loose and direct. Snow lingers in the deep gorges of the mountains. Below is a lovely green lake and trees rich in their changeless verdure. The sky, a bluish gray, reaches down toward the gray shadow on the higher peaks, which are almost hidden in the enveloping clouds. The blue shadows seem to float along the mountain sides, so evanescent are they, so fleeting in their beauty.