Landscape Around Gap, Oscar Louis Mascré, Oil On Wood

Oscar Louis Edouard Mascré, landscape painter. Student of Paul Saïn and Félix Vuillefroy, themselves influenced by the painters of the Barbizon School. Oscar Mascré became a member of the Society of French Artists in 1896 in his 31st year, a first painting was exhibited at the Salon de la SAF and this during 38 salons. He lived for a long time in Paris (Atelier at 31Bd Berthier) where he exhibited numerous works at the Salon des Artistes Français and at the Salons d'Hiver and des Peintres de montagne. He is fond of mountains whose distant peaks he likes to draw. Always in exile in search of new avenues of work through roads, paths or trails, he paints the hills bordering the valleys, the farms and their orchards populated with fruit trees bursting with light in spring. Our work is annotated on the back: Environs de Gap, 97 and monogrammed OM. Signed and dated lower right: O Mascré 97