After studying at the Academy of Arts, Karl Bryullov, to improve his skills, went to Italy. It was there that the painting “A Girl Gathering Grapes in the Neighborhood of Naples” was written.
The canvas depicts a grape harvest scene. A young girl tears out bunches of grapes and puts them in a wicker basket hanging on her hand. Bunches of grapes hang high, the girl has to reach for them, put on tiptoe. The artist stopped the time in the picture, and it seems that the girl froze in the dance. Light translucent clothes are designed to convey the tenderness of the southern sun and the warmth of the Italian summer.
Another young girl rests on the stone steps in the thick shadow of the grape leaves. Absolutely imperceptibly, that the girl was engaged in heavy work, it seems, that she was tired and has got excited from dance and has adjourned for a while to take a breath. The cheeks of the girl burn with a blush, the light blouse slept a little, revealing a white breast.
The artist in red marked the semantic center of the painting: a blush, clothes, a tambourine in the hands of a girl, a necklace. On the edges of the canvas the green color predominates: the grass, bushes and trees, the vine frame the picture, making the image more intimate.
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