19th Century French School Landscape With Barns

19th Century French School Landscape With BarnsA beautiful atmospheric depiction of a rural country track with barns and cottages. If you cast your eye along the path, you will find the skyline of a distant town rising above the horizon. We love the way the sun is beginning to break through the dense clouds perhaps a brighter day ahead. The painting is housed within an ornate scroll and foliate gilded frame. Medium Oil on panel Overall size 11 x 8 28cm x 22cm Year of creation c. 1890 Provenance

Sarah Churchill (née Jenyns) was considered to be one of the most influential women of her generation

Oil on cardboard laid on canvas

The painting is housed within a gold 19th-century frame with a raised foliate border

We particularly love the nonchalant posture of the female as she leans in a doorway

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

He’s dressed in a black tunic with gold epaulettes

A gentle early 20th-century portrait of a woman by Swedish painter

One billows smoke into the air as the other two lay dormant

In certain lights

Size 7” x 9¾” / 18cm x 25cm

such as Van Gogh

where colours were exaggerated to bring further meaning to a subject