With thatch roof cottage and woman with chickens. Signed lower left. Leon Richet (France 1847-1902) is known for landscape, still life and genre painting. Léon Richet (1847-1907) was one of the 19th century artists who, under the influence of the Barbizon School, freed the landscape depiction of academic and idealistic dogmas and mythological and historical contexts. The faithful representation of nature with a sophisticated lighting became the focus of the artists. Richet was very influenced by the works of Rousseau.  The majority of Richet's landscapes are of the forest of Fountainebleau, His compositions are often airy and open, unlike the sometimes enclosed and dusky views of nature of some of his mentors and counterparts, such as Diaz and Corot. Richet was a very prolific artist and his works appear in many collections.

Good condition.