Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & Figure

Jules-Louis Dusaussay, Barbizon School Landscape With Cottages, Chickens & FigureAn atmospheric 19th century oil on canvas depicting a rural scene with chickens, cottages and a woman washing linens. A worn pathway winds between two buckled trees and leads onto open pasture where several chickens peck the earth. While, in the foreground, a woman dressed in a blue dress with a white apron is kneeling by a pond and washing laundry. Stylistically, the painting fits with the approach taken by the Barbizon school of artists who were

It’s interesting to note that throughout his career he stayed true to his father’s style

What do you get from her

But although his intentions are quite clear

Louis Joseph Pottin was an artist surrounded by talented portraitists who were no doubt in high demand

21” x 17” / 53cm x 43cm

Durozé has captured the sitter’s laissez-faire attitude superbly well

Year of creation 1917

A charming 19th-century study of a woodcutter in the snow by German painter

The canvas is in good shape and the paint layer is stable under varnish

the canvas is in reasonable condition with craquelure throughout

A fine early 20th-century oil on canvas by Danish landscape artist

But good enough to hang without a problem