French School, River Landscape With Bridge

French School, River Landscape With BridgeAn attractive impressionistic landscape painting depicting a river with a small rickety bridge. It feels like a secret magical garden that you discover via a heavy wooden door. Theres a lost in time quality to it and perhaps it was an area that the artist knew well. The painting is housed within a simple wooden frame. Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 17 x 14 43cm x 36cmYear of creation: c. 1900Provenance: FranceCondition: Very presentable. Canvas

Craquelure and extensive losses

you can see a small crop of buildings set within a typically flat Dutch landscape

The artist has drawn their inspiration from the imagined landscapes of classical painters

They also tended to wear tight trousers and waistcoats with high upstanding collars

In certain lights

If you enjoy character

488 achieved at an auction in Belgium for ”Le Bêcheur” in 2009

Red hair tumbles down her back as her eyes look hopefully on

Perhaps he sat on the grassy bank to the left while sketching out his studies

In that piece

So perhaps the lady’s stern expression is due to her backache rather than her personality…

A few streaks towards the bottom right which may be related to the varnish