French School Of Barbizon Emile Bouneau Landscape

Painting from the French school of Barbizon, landscape, oil on canvas signed Émile Bouneau and entitled "La Forêt De Fontainebleau".
Signed lower left. On the frame an old Exhibition label.
Original gilded wood frame.

This glimpse of the Fontainebleau forest, in the warm, pink tones of the sunset, almost seems to float before the viewer like a chimerical vision.
Painted on the first canvas. There are no restorations or color drops. The frame is the original of the painting, in gilded wood with its original gilding. Small traces of discoloration on the frame, consistent with the period.

Measures
Canvas cm 61 x 51
Frame cm 74 x 60

Biography:
Émile Joseph Bouneau was born on February 7, 1902 at 37 rue Saint-Michel in Avignon. After being a student at the École des beaux-arts d'Avignon, Émile Bouneau took courses at the École nationale supérieure des arts decoratifs in Paris from 1919 to 1925. In 1928, he spent an extended stay in San Francisco.
On April 22, 1933, Émile Bouneau married Solange Blanc in Paris. The Abd-el-Tif prize, won with André Hamburg in the same year, 1933, earned him a two-year stay at the Abd-el-Tif villa in Algiers. If he paints views of Algiers and its region (the archaeological site of Tipaza), his paintings tell us that he arrived as far as Fez. A very young writer interested in art, Albert Camus, wrote articles on painting in the Alger Student magazine and, naturally frequenting Abd-el-Tif's villa, cited Émile Bouneau among the notable painters of his time. According to Élisabeth Cazenave, the two men had become friends.
During the Spanish Civil War, Émile Bouneau volunteered for the Republican camp.

Émile Bouneau paints nudes, portraits (like a Vincent whose dedication indicates that he went to Saint-Brevin-les-Pins in 1947) and especially landscapes, and his favorite subject is the forest of Fontainebleau , he suggested to Jean-Pierre Delarge to place it in the continuity of the Barbizon School, even if the finesse of the line which creates an incomparable sensation of blur and which constitutes its personality, detaches it from classical painting to place it in modernity.

Died in 1970, Émile Bouneau is an artist who convinced gallery owners and critics of his time Cited by Roger Bezombes among the extraordinary actors of exoticism in art, he discreetly crossed the 20th century and is nevertheless representative of it. In 1982, a retrospective exhibition was dedicated to him in Paris.

You can admire his works:
Avignon, Calvet Museum: Fontainebleau Forest.
Cagnes-sur-Mer, Château Grimaldi: The clown.
Paris:
National Library of France: Portrait of Charles Panzéra, drawing; Portrait of Madeleine Baillot (Madame Charles Panzéra), drawing.
Paris Museum of Modern Art19.
National Museum of Modern Art: Boy's Head, 1929, drawing, 39 × 24 cm;Parata (the clown), 1931, oil on canvas, 146 × 89 cm.
Puteaux, National Contemporary Art Fund: works deposited at the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, the Paris National Opera and the Court of Auditors.