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The present work is a study for the left hand side of Sickert's large painting, La Scierie de Torqueville or Le Vieux Colombier which is in the collection of Dundee Art Gallery. It shows the timberyard in the hamlet of Torqueville, just outside the village of Envermeu where Sickert and his wife had a house.
In July 1913 Sickert wrote to Miss Sands: 'I have started studies of an old farmyard with a dovecot raised up on one beam of timber, innumberable mossy timber beams, writhing like snakes on the ground a fond of fat rich dark chestnut trees going out of the picture and posts and gates and barrels in shadow showing mysterious clairiére effect of leafage in the distance. A Corot-Millet subject Germanised a little ...' (see W. Baron, loc. cit.).
In July 1913 Sickert wrote to Miss Sands: 'I have started studies of an old farmyard with a dovecot raised up on one beam of timber, innumberable mossy timber beams, writhing like snakes on the ground a fond of fat rich dark chestnut trees going out of the picture and posts and gates and barrels in shadow showing mysterious clairiére effect of leafage in the distance. A Corot-Millet subject Germanised a little ...' (see W. Baron, loc. cit.).