Lively pastoral landscape.

Oil on canvas monogrammed PB lower right

 Dimensions: 32 x 40,5 cm, with frame 44,5 x 52,5 cm

 The work is presented in its original palmette frame. It requires some minor restoration work that we will have done by our restorer.

 This beautiful romantic landscape with a harmonious composition by Philippe Budelot is also a work full of life. These are the first landscapes representing scenes from everyday life. In our painting, the characters, accompanied by various animals, meet and exchange. The figures are by the hand of Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines (1769-1823) who used to paint the characters in the paintings of the artist's master Lazare Bruandet. We can appreciate their fineness of execution and the rendering of details translated by a meticulous drawing and a fine and delicate touch.

 Philippe Budelot was a student of the landscape painter Lazare Bruandet, who taught him the practice of outdoor painting in the Paris area.

Like his master, his paintings combine a meticulous naturalism in the representation of the landscape with picturesque notes induced by the figures animating his works. As is very often the case in romantic landscapes, the characters are painted in collaboration with other artists. He exhibited regularly at the Salons from 1793 to 1841 and notably directed the Saint Petersburg Porcelain Manufactory.

Museums: Abbeville, Arras, Chalon sur Marne, Epinal.

Joseph SWEBACH-DESFONTAINES (Metz, 1769 – Paris, 1823)

Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_François_Joseph_Swebach-Desfontaines