Frédéric Ede - Chickens In The Countryside

Painting, oil on canvas, representing chickens on a country path with farms around. Signed lower right "Frederic - EDE -" and dated 1904. This canvas is in very good condition.

Dimensions
With frame - H 47cm x W 55cm
Without frame - H 38.5cm x W 46cm

The painter Frédéric-Charles-Vipont EDE, of Canadian origin, was born on February 22, 1865 in Ottawa and died there in 1943. Passionate about drawing and painting since his childhood, he came to France, around his twentieth year, and settles in Paris, an artistic hub for all young talents. He was a student of Tony Robert-Fleury and Bouguereau, recognized masters and school leaders for a large number of “official” painters of the 19th century. At the Académie Julian, he became friends with Numa Gillet and Michel Korochansky, who took him to Montigny. There everything enchants him, the forest, the banks of the Loing, the meadows, the farm animals, the canal, and he abandons Paris for Sorques. He moved to the Coffin café which took in boarders, tourists or passing artists. Ede stayed for seven years, finding himself at ease in this warm environment of artists with such varied conceptions, a true melting pot of modern art.