Leberecht Lortet (1826-1901), Oil On Canvas "the Descent Into The Village", Mid 19th Century

Oil on canvas entitled "La Descente au Village", signed lower left LORTET, nicely framed in its original gilded stuccoed wooden frame (a few small stucco chips and wear to the gilding). The paint is cracked at sky level, and the varnish slightly yellowed. The canvas represents in its center a traveler and his donkey descending from a mountain towards the village located by the sea. In the foreground the painting shows an arid and rocky landscape, traversed by a path lined with agaves and umbrella pines, and along small golden stone buildings, which opens in low angle on a plain hemmed with mountains, at the edge of a blue sea suggesting that it is the Mediterranean. Leberecht LORTET (1826-1901) is a French painter, born in Heidelberg in Germany, and who lived for a long time in Lyon in France. He is famous for his landscape paintings. Many works by this artist are kept and exhibited in various French museums. A pupil of Alexandre Calame in Geneva, he exhibited from 1858 at the Salon de Lyon, then from 1859 to 1870 at the Salon des Artistes Français. Dimensions of the canvas: height 45 cm, width 38 cm; Frame dimensions: height 66 cm, width 58 cm.