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Lucien MIGNON (1865-1944)
Rural landscape
Oil on canvas signed lower left and dated 1938 lower right
Format (at sight): 31 x 38.5 cm
Format (canvas): 33 x 41 cm
Format (frame): 43 x 50.5 cm
Note: relining and tiny lifting in the sky on the right side.
He enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Angers, then in those of Paris in the studio of Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1886. Bound by a long friendship with Renoir, he moved to Cagnes-sur -Sea and hardly conceals the influence of his work. Its forms, drowned in light, nevertheless retain a certain respect for classicism; his ambition is to combine the rigor of Ingres with the impressionist blend.
Ref: F6BS14UDSJ