C Rousseau, Evening Landscape With Brushwood Collectors

C Rousseau, Evening Landscape With Brushwood CollectorsAn atmospheric late 19th century oil painting depicting a rural view across to a distant village. In the foreground, two figures are gathering brushwood while a mother and son walk towards a small stream. The artist has used an earthy natural palette of browns, oranges and greens to great effect. The graduated sky is particularly splendid and evokes memories of peaceful evenings in the countryside. Stylistically, the painting fits with the approach

Devonshire and later lived in Bedminster

1840Provenance: FranceCondition: Craquelure throughout but the paint layer is stable

You can find an example at AbeBooks

sought to convey more about a subject by bringing several views together in the same image

Thorvald Larsen (1881-1947)

Note how your eye is drawn towards the bottom left-hand corner and then across the composition

thick fur coat and pearls by artist

It’s certainly from the same period

Lehmann studied at the Royal Danish Academy in his hometown of Copenhagen

The painting is signed in the upper left and housed within a period frame

The painting is signed in the lower right and housed within a swept foliate frame

such as Van Gogh