This fragment of a fresco is painted triangle on a black background. Two ducks swimming in the foreground. The head of the first that seems to lean forward is unfortunately truncated. Two buildings stand in the background (small temples? Homes? Architectural Elements Garden?). While the paint is scratched, the colors remain vibrant. The yolk is mixed with pink, gray and black with white highlights.
Peintures'inscrit in the tradition of landscape painting through the Roman. Several examples have been preserved at Pompeii which, because of the catastrophe that touched this city in 79 AD. JC has preserved murals of villas in a state of conservationexceptionnel.
Landscape art seems to have met certain criteria outlined by the architect Vitruvius (De architectura, VII, 5, 2): presence of ports, headlands, beaches, rivers, springs, tanks, shrines, woods, mountains, flocks and shepherds. He also took guns created by great painters Greek or Roman (cf. the example of the painter Studius mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his "Natural History, XXXV, 116, 117) whose models have been spread by codes of stickers or paintings have disappeared.
This piece of scenery is a moving testimony of the decorations of the ancient villas. The rapid containment of the line, the lightness transparenceet FEATURES OF frescoes combined with a palette of rich, vivid color we give an overview of the quality of the workshop dealt with by a detail perfectly charming.
The black background of the representation could be an indication of its location in a larger composition where thumbnails of topics related to the main stage were included as tables in the table. The yellow line in the duck should then be understood as part of the sticker. It is also possible that this fragment was part of a representation which covered the entire wall into a genre.
Ducks are often in scenic derivatives of the type called "Nilotic" inspired by everyday life along the Nile or what we imagine daily life in Egypt. The water scenes with depictions of aquatic animals, scenes of hunting and fishing were popular. They will greatly influence the construction of paysagedans Roman art. The Nilotic landscape as such develops s'associantau theme pygmies (see People's mythological struggle Pygmy cons Crane).

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