"Léon Richet - Landscape"
Léon RichetOil on panel
79 x 105 cm
Signed lower left
Léon Richet, born in 1843 (or 1847?), died in 1907, is a French painter of genre scenes, landscapes, still lifes and pastellists. He was a student of Ambroise Détrez at the Academy of Valenciennes, then of Narcisse Diaz, Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger, in Paris. He appeared in Paris at the Salon, then at the Salon des Artistes Français, from 1869. He obtained an honorable mention in 1885, a second medal in 1888, a second class medal. Léon Richet ranks among the landscapers who were inspired by the masters of Barbizon.
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