François Richard De Montholon (1856-1940) Oil On Canvas Representative Boats

François Richard DE MONTHOLON (1856-1940) oil on canvas representing boats Oil on canvas representing boats Signed lower right Please note that the frame is damaged in places

Visible at the Courcelles Antiquités Gallery, at 41 rue des Acacias, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.

Born in 1856 and died in 1940, François Richard de Montholon is a French painter. At twenty, he learned painting from Louis-Émile Dardoize (1825-1901). Then, between 1877 and 1881, he joined the workshops of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. He then created large landscapes in his studio on rue La Bruyère in Paris Post-Impressionist painter, he sent to the Salon from 1879 and until 1936, landscapes, immersed in misty and ethereal atmospheres. He exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Hiver from 1908 to 1925. I He painted the Paris region, the Centre, Périgord, Vendée, the Basque Country and Boulonnais. His many travels can be found in his paintings and in regional exhibitions (Roubaix, Lyon, Boulogne-sur-mer, Nantes, Valenciennes, Douai, Rouen and Beauvais). In 1908, he received the Morlot prize at the Salon des artistes français. He often works with his friend the painter Maurice Dainville.