{"product_id":"antique-french-autumn-woodland-oil-painting-1870","title":"Antique French Oil Painting Autumn Woodland Landscape, Circa 1870","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA quiet autumn wood at the close of day, the trees gone to rust and copper, and set back among them a pale stuccoed house catching the last of the light. The scene is built in the Barbizon manner: warm russet and ochre foliage worked up in loose, broken strokes against a soft blue-green sky, with a low footbridge crossing the water in the foreground. Continental European, most likely French, and unsigned, which is usual for decorative woodland studies of this kind. It comes in its original carved and gilded frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unidentified\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | Unsigned\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas laid to board\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Autumnal wooded landscape with a house among the trees\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | Continental European, likely French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, circa 1870\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Panel Size | 21.1 in. W x 16.1 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 26.75 in. W x 22 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Horizontal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Carved and gilded wood with a leaf-carved inner molding and reeded outer band, original to the work\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]School or Movement | Barbizon School. A group of French painters working around the village of Barbizon near Fontainebleau from roughly 1830 to 1870, who left the studio to paint woodland and countryside directly from nature. They favored ordinary rural subjects, muted earth tones, and visible brushwork over the polished finish the Paris Salon preferred. The manner was widely taken up across the Continent through the end of the century, and this autumnal wood belongs to that broad tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Canvas laid to board\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting carries a discolored varnish overall, warming the surface and deepening the shadows, and shows fine craquelure throughout consistent with age. There are light abrasions across the surface, most noticeable toward the edges, and a small area of paint loss at the right edge. The image is otherwise stable and reads clearly, with the lit house and the foreground bridge well preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is carved and gilded wood with genuine wear, including gesso losses and rubbing to the gilding at the corners. Historic woodworm damage is present in the frame and has been treated; the frame is now pest-free. The backing board carries an old inventory marking, \"No 22,\" in blue pencil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePlease review all photographs closely, as they form part of this description.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51781812257046,"sku":"AMD-14654","price":1550.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/58132D26-86C7-4B47-A299-9692877CF136_1_201_a.jpg?v=1788800422","url":"https:\/\/austyn-marie.myshopify.com\/products\/antique-french-autumn-woodland-oil-painting-1870","provider":"Austyn Marie Design","version":"1.0","type":"link"}