working under portraitist Jean-Baptiste-Ange Tissier (1814-1876)
Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 16” x 22” / 41cm x 56cmYear of creation: 1898Provenance: Private collection
Craquelure throughout but the paint layer is stable under varnish
to St Buryan on the Cornish coast
000 for ‘The Floating Harbour
Nicolas Victor Fonville, Landscape With Cottage, Lake & Figures Italy working under portraitist Jean-Baptiste-Ange TissierThis finely balanced early 19th century landscape painting by French painter, Nicolas Victor Fonville (1805 1856), depicts a rural cottage set gently within a wooded clearing, its thatched roof emerging from a copse of trees beside a winding path. Beyond, the land opens toward water and distant buildings, with low mountains rising softly on the horizon. Its a composition, exquisite in nature, that requires deeper sustained looking. Every element here