Jean Pierre François Lamorinière (1828–1911)
Plaine a l’infini (Plain to Infinity), 1895

Oil on canvas
McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Gift of Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust

Jeffery Howe
Professor Emeritus, Art History

Low horizon and uniform sky hanging over the nearly flat plain impart an abstract quality to this painting. The large expanse of sky is defined with subtle tonal gradations. Moving from the foreground of flat heath, with a broad marsh in the middle ground, the misty haze in the distance makes the deep plain appear to stretch infinitely.