Louis Rémy Matifas, The Hamlet, Oil On Cardboard

Louis Rémy MATIFAS
(Amiens 1847 - 1896 Paris)
The hamlet
oil on cardboard
27 x 42 cm
in a gray wooden frame covered with an unsigned bluish border

Selective bibliography:
Bénézit, vol. 9, Paris, Gründ, 1999, p. 357

Notable museums:
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims
Musée Ingres-Bourdelle, Montauban
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Clermont-Ferrand

Find out more:
Louis Matifas trained at the School of Fine Arts in Amiens then with Antoine Vollon. He specializes in landscape and flower painting. Between 1876 and 1881, he exhibited annually at the Paris Salon (Bénézit, vol. 9, Paris, Gründ, 1999, p. 357). Several of his works appear in the collections of French museums.