Léon Marie Benoît, Autumnal Landscape With Distant Hills

Léon Marie Benoît, Autumnal Landscape With Distant HillsA calming autumnal landscape painting by French artist, Lon Marie Benot. The subdued palette of subtle browns and cool blues give the piece a chilly atmosphere. It evokes the feeling of a brisk walk on a cold day in November. In 1907, Benot was awarded a medal at a Salon in Lyon where he exhibited multiple times. The painting is signed in the lower right and housed within a decorative foliate frame. Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 23 x 18 59cm x

The painting is housed within a good later frame

and is known to have exhibited at the illustrious Paris salon in 1864

400 achieved for ‘A Mother & Child’ at Christie’s in 1994

Lawrence Tibbett (1896-1960)

has been inspired by the great landscape painters of the 19th-century and we particularly love the tall trees that draw your eye upwards towards the heavens

Dozens of men and women

men often sported an hourglass figure with tightly cinched waists and barrel chests

Year of creation 1842

more obvious

Ferdinand Chaumeau came from a family of painters and enjoyed this area of France

It’s unsigned but clearly by a very accomplished academy-trained artist

070 achieved for ‘Grossmutter Erzählt’ at auction in 1996