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Oil on canvas 19th century
Size without frame 61/48
Size with frame 75/61
French school
Signed Theodore Levigne lower right.
Théodore Levigne was a French painter born in Noirétable on November 17, 1848 and died on November 11, 1912. His family moved to the Saint-Jean district of Lyon in 1856. He attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon from 1860 to 1862.
Our painting is a classic Levigne, a snowy landscape, but his output is sometimes uneven in terms of quality.
The present painting, on the other hand, is very interesting in terms of composition: there's a beautiful depth, the eye wanders around the painting, then there's a very nice contrast, the white of the snow against a dark background, a leaden sky, then the quality of the drawing, which sometimes leaves something to be desired in certain paintings, here on the contrary, the ducks are well represented, the touch is sure, and we can see a real skill on the part of the painter.
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