Winter landscape: snowy village
Oil on canvas
50 x 61 cm
Signed lower right: Broquet Léon
Bears on the reverse the mark of the canvas merchant Lucien Lefebvre-Foinet 19 rue Vavin et 2 rue Bréa in Montparnasse (active at this address between 1897 and 1904)
Very good condition - unframed
Another work by this artist (summer landscape) is available in my gallery
Espérance Léon Cléophas Broquet, known as Léon Broquet, born in Paris on November 1, 1869 and died December 29, 1935 in Châteauroux, was a French painter and engraver specializing in landscape painting, seascapes and history painting. A student of Claude Monet, Antoine Guillemet and Alexandre Nozal, he produced many oils on canvas, but also etchings, watercolors and murals. Renowned as an army painter during the 1914-1918 war, he left around 1929 to join the group of Concarneau painters. He exhibited at the Salon of French Artists in Paris from 1901 until 1931, and received a second class medal in 1912 for Winter in the Marsh, Snow Effect, which classified him out of competition for the rest of his career. He is the great-grandfather of the painter and designer Virginie Broquet.
His works are exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay, the army museum...