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Antonio Cortes, signed.
Oil on canvas depicting a pastoral scene. Peasants guard a herd of cows and goats on a river bank, under a cloudy sky.
Signed "A.Cortes" lower right.
Work carried out in the 19th century.
Antonio Cortes (1827-1908) was a Spanish painter at the royal court in Madrid. In France for the Universal Exhibition of 1855, he is known as a painter of rural life. Linked to the painters of the Lagny group, he is the father of the painter Edouard Cortes.
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