"Nicolas Renie- The Hunter"
Nicolas RENIE (Active 1840s to 1870s) Oil on wood 33 x 24 cm (44.5 x 34 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower left 'NRenié / 1879" Nicolas Renié is part of the family of the Barbizon painter Jean Emile Renié and of a large family of artists, that of Jacob-Desmalter. He was a student of the neoclassical landscape painter Louis Etienne Watelet and was active in the years 1840 to 1870. Nicolas Renié first painted genre scenes, still lifes and landscapes before specializing in views near Fontainebleau from the 1850s/1860s. 
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