Rowland Wheelwright

Little Fishes - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Landscape by Rowland Wheelwright

c.1920

Signed figures in a landscape oil on canvas circa 1870 by French impressionist painter Victor Alfred Paul Vignon. The work depicts a woman carrying a basket with a young child beside her walking along a snowy path in a Fontainebleau Forest. This early work by Vignon was painted whilst he was under the tutelage of Camille Corot in the period between 1869 and 1870 . The work shows a mother and child in the forest at Fontainebleau in winter. Many painters in Vignon's circle such as Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Bazille visited this area to paint in the late 1860's and the early 1870's. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 23"x25.5" Unframed: 13.5"x16" Provenance: Galerie Commeter - Hamburg c. 1920 French exhibition customs stamps verso His mother has been incorrectly identified as the writer Claude Vignon...

Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas circa 1880 by French impressionist painter Stanislas Victor Edouard Lepine. The piece depicts two workers haymaking on a summer's day. A mother nestled in the hedges cradles her baby beside a path and there is a river to the left of the painting. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 22"x23" Unframed: 13"x16" Provenance: Private French collection This work is included in the Catalogue Raisonee of Stanislas Lepine by Manuel Schmit - Supplement 1 / Ref L.1119 Stanislas Victor Édouard Lépine was the pupil of Corot in Paris between 1860 and 1875. His first paintings hardly attracted attention. He would perhaps have remained unknown for a long time if Count Armand Doria, struck by the feeling visible in his landscapes, had not taken him under his protection with Adolphe Félix Cals...

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