Flowering Heathland Landscape With Sheep, Édouard Pail, Antique Oil Landscape, XIX. (QP780)
ANTIQUE LANDSCAPE PAINTING, ÉDOUARD PAIL, FRENCH HEATHLAND WITH FLOCK OF SHEEP, OIL ON CANVAS, 19TH CENTURY. (QP780)
The category antique paintings, Landscape Paintings, presented here is a suggestive antique painting depicting the French heathland with a flock of sheep.
The composition features a vast expanse of Flowering Heathland, characterised by rich vegetation in delicate shades of pink, lilac and violet.
At the centre of the scene is a flock of sheep, accompanied by the shepherd, slowly crossing the landscape and creating a highly natural rural and pastoral atmosphere.
The French heathland, depicted during the flowering season, occupies much of the composition and gives the painting a distinctive luminosity.
The foreground vegetation is rendered through lively, impasto brushwork, with numerous touches of colour suggesting the flowers and the richness of the terrain.
This is an antique painting; the work is signed lower left E. Pail, a French landscape painter.
Édouard Pail (1851–1916) was born in Corbigny, in the Nièvre region of Burgundy. He studied in Nevers and later in Paris, where he came into contact with the artistic e
nvironment associated with landscape painting and the Barbizon and Impressionist schools.
He was a pupil of Lavoignat and Léon Bonnat. He began exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1878, receiving praise and later becoming a member.
He regularly exhibited in Paris and throughout the provinces. He received medals at the Salon and official distinctions in 1887 and 1893.
His paintings are exhibited in several important French museums: Musée des beaux-arts de Brest, Musée d'art et d'histoire Romain-Rolland, Musée d'art Roger-Quilliot
and Musée Hyacinthe-Rigaud.
The painting is presented in a beautiful, original and authentic gilded frame.
The antique frame and the painting have been professionally and carefully restored.
Therefore, the Antique Paintings, Natural Landscape of the French Countryside, Flowering Heathland with Flock of Sheep, 19th Century, Oil Painting on Canvas,
from the Bisgart Collection, can be viewed at our premises, where many other works of art can also be admired.
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Bibliography:
Bénézit and Gérald Schurr & Pierre Cabanne, Dictionnaire des Petits Maîtres de la peinture 1820-1920.
Canvas dimensions: 55 x 38 cm
Dimensions with frame: 78 x 61 cm
Depth: 9 cm
Weight: 6.5 kg
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