View of Saint-Pol-de-Léon
1837
Oil on canvas
2008-6-1
Acquired in 2009 in the London art market with the help of the Region of Brittany and the Fonds régional d’acquisition pour les musées (FRAM)
H. 62 cm - L. 90,5 cm
This student of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes is one of the best landscape painters of her time, well known for her studies in the open air. Her trip to Brittany in 1835-1836 was to research new motifs. In this panoramic work, painted in a studio from open-air studies, she presents an ideal view of the landscape, adding a church steeple to the left to balance the composition, and skilfully painting a genre scene in the foreground close to a washhouse that never existed in this location.
View of Saint-Pol-de-Léon
1837
Oil on canvas
2008-6-1
Acquired in 2009 in the London art market with the help of the Region of Brittany and the Fonds régional d’acquisition pour les musées (FRAM)
H. 62 cm - L. 90,5 cm
This student of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes is one of the best landscape painters of her time, well known for her studies in the open air. Her trip to Brittany in 1835-1836 was to research new motifs. In this panoramic work, painted in a studio from open-air studies, she presents an ideal view of the landscape, adding a church steeple to the left to balance the composition, and skilfully painting a genre scene in the foreground close to a washhouse that never existed in this location.