3290
Romanticist landscape painter
France 1st half 19th C.
Farmhouse thatched with straw on the track near the village pond.
Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Verso stamp of the artist's supplies store Alphonse Giroux, Paris, twice. Verso on the back of the frame indistinctly inscribed.
H 44, W 66 cm (support). Original elaborate frame.
Alphonse Giroux (1776 - 1848), named on the stamps of the canvas, was a versatile entrepreneur who worked in Paris as a painter, art restorer and ebonist, among other things, and whose cabinetmaking business flourished during the era of the Bourbon kings Louis XVIII and Charles X. His restoration work included the renovation of the Notre-Dame Cathedral. One of his sons, André Giroux (1801 - 1879), embarked on a career as a landscape painter and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1825.
Provenance: Fischer, Lucerne, auction 409 H, 24.11.2010, lot 1149; since then private collection Schluchsee.
Invoice: Fischer, Lucerne, 25.11.2010, invoice amount 3357,10 CHF (ca. 3101 €), in copy.

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