ARTIST: Charles Girardet (Switzerland, 1813 - 1871)
NAME: Landscape with Cows
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Board has some surface cracks. Some scattered inpaitings mostly along edges.
SIGHT SIZE: 6 x 8 inches / 15 x 20 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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SKU#: 122647
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BIOGRAPHY:
Girardet's art belongs to the tradition of Romanticism and to the popular movement in landscape painting called the "School of 1830". His landscapes, based on sketches often completed under adverse weather conditions and within one hour, exhibit a rare vivacity and mastery of subtle color, especially after his 1850 stay in Brienz. Unlike his friends and colleagues Maximilien de Meuron and Rodolphe Topffer, he was not enchanted by the snow-capped peaks of the Alps, preferring instead to portray lakes, streams and marshes, notably the rivers Aar, Eure and Marne.