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Henri JOURDAIN
Paris, 1863 - Paris, 1931
Oil on cardboard
65 x 54 cm (70 x 59 cm with frame)
Signed lower left "Henri Jourdain".
Countersigned on the back "Henri Jourdain".
Pitchwood frame
Henri Jourdain's recognizable style is close to that of Symbolist landscape painters such as Maurice Chabas, or English landscape painters of the late 19th century. The theme of a river landscape in autumnal colors, with a path running alongside it, is recurrent in his paintings. Here, a horse-drawn carriage and the gateway to a property have been added, adding great decorative effect to this composition by a painter who was also an illustrator (Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, 1912, Alphonse de Chateaubriant's Monsieur de Lourdines, 1929, and Alphonse Daudet's Les Lettres de mon moulin).
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