Jean-ferdinand Monchablon (1855-1904) "peasant Scene" Oil On Canvas Signed (1887) 38x55 Cm

Jean-Ferdinand Monchablon (1855–1904) "Peasant scene" Oil on canvas signed lower right, dated 1887 Dimensions: 38 x 55 cms Biography: Jean Baptiste Ferdinand Monchablon was born in 1854 in Châtillon-sur-Saône. After brilliant studies, he entered the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1881. He was then a student of Jean-Paul Laurens and Alexandre Cabanel. Attracted by the painting of Flemish masters, in 1886 he went to Holland to Leiden where he became a master of landscapes with his very particular touch. He will leave a trace of this passion through his signature “Jan”. He came very regularly to his native village on the borders of the Vosges, Haute-Marne and Haute-Saône, and it is there that he painted the majority of his landscape paintings. At the Salon de Nancy in 1886, he exhibited a “Philosopher” much appreciated by critics. Many of his works are in the United States, where he is even better known than in France. He died on October 2, 1904 in Châtillon-sur-Saône where he was buried. In 1909, his friend and American art dealer Roland Knoedler had a monument erected in memory of the artist with a bronze bust made by Antoine Bourdelle.