Leon Richet Art

"Paysanne dans un bois", oil painting on wooden panel, signed in the bottom left corner, 48.9x32.4cm. Origin: -Christie's New York, sale on May 29th 1981, lot no. 24 -Rindoko Museum, in Tochigi, Japan -Private collection in 2020, after sale Museum collection As a young man, Richet followed painting classes from Détrez, an old student of Léon Cogniet's. In Paris, he built a friendship with Teinturier (painter from Valencia) and became a student of Jules Lefebvre's but most importantly the disciple of Narcisse Diaz de La Pena, with whom he collaborated ( some canvas bare both their signatures). They both share a remarkable audacity in their enameled way of treating reflections of light on water as well as the the effects of the sun on the clouds. At the Salon de Paris...

Antique French oil on canvas rural landscape painting signed by Barbizon painter Leon Richet (1847-1907).

Richet was a classic Barbizon artist and this "Forest Interior" as they are aptly called, is very beautiful and a great nature study. It is in its original period frame which has be...

A well-worn dirt path makes its way past a small pond with bleary reflections capturing the trees immediately behind it, the largest gnarled with the upper portion having felled long...

A very fine landscape scene of a rural farm house, a dirt path meanders through autumnal grasses before a rickety fence lining the property of the stone and stucco farm house with it...