Pierre-michel De Lovinfosse (liège, 1745-1821). “pastoral Summer”. 1815. Pastel On Canvas.

Gilded wood frame, clear passe-partout (usual wear). Frame dimensions: 60 x 70 cm. Dimensions of the pastel on canvas: 39 x 51 cm.
Provenance: Marie Antoinette Ghiot, legatee of the painter Pierre-Michel de Lovinfosse, see inscription on the back.
Marie-Antoinette Ghiot, born in 1786, responsible for the painting business run by Lovinfosse, inherited a good part of the artist's property.
Pierre-Michel de Lovinfosse, born November 2, 1747 in Liège, where he died on December 10, 1821, is a Liège painter of the 18th and 19th centuries. With Théodore-Edmond Plumier, Jean-Baptiste Coclers, Nicolas Henri Joseph de Fassin, Léonard Defrance and Paul-Joseph Delcloche, Pierre-Michel de Lovinfosse is one of the great baroque and rococo painters of the 18th century in the Principality of Liège.
He painted several portraits, but he is best known as a decorative painter, treating allegorical, mythological, historical and religious subjects.
He notably decorated the castles of Borgharen (in 1790) and Amstenraede (Netherlands) and Waroux (Belgium)