Felix Planquette

“Cows on the banks of a stream” Félix PLANQUETTE (1873-1964) Oil on canvas (restoration), signed lower right. Dimensions: 55 x 38.5 cm without frame / 74.5 x 58 cm with frame. Félix Planquette, born in Arras on April 23, 1873, and died in Paris on March 12, 1964, is a French landscape and animal painter. A renowned and prolific painter, he exhibited regularly at the Salon of French Artists where he won awards in 1900 and 1902 and obtained a travel grant in 1905, and he won the Rosa-Bonheur prize in 1912. In 1929, he was named Rosati d' honor. He died on March 12, 1964 at 170 boulevard Ney in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, he lived in the same district at no. 33 rue Lamarck. His works spread throughout the world and particularly in the United States.